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[Installbase-devel] Can't select install directory on Linux

[Eric F. <ef...@sy...>]

When I try to change the install directory (the "Browse" button in the
Choose Destination Location dialog), it gives me the error "couldn't read
file ... choosedir.tcl".  The full stack dump is at the end of this message.
This happened when I tried to install InstallBase itself, and when I am
using an installer I generated with it.  I'm running on a system that only
has tk8.3 installed, if that matters.

I did a little digging around, and figured it might be a problem with the
tclkit.  I had never heard of tclkit before (pretty neat piece of software,
though...), but I wasn't going to let that stop me.  I grabbed the latest
tclkit and dropped it into place, but after that I got errors whenever I
tried to build an installer.

So I'm out of half-baked ideas.  Any suggestions on how to get rid of this
error?

Thanks
Eric

tcl stack dump:
couldn't read file
"/home/syncad/emfinstall/Linux-x86-Install/lib/tk8.4/choosedir.tcl": not a
directory
    while executing
"source /home/syncad/emfinstall/Linux-x86-Install/lib/tk8.4/choosedir.tcl"
    ("uplevel" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"uplevel #0 $auto_index($name)"
    (procedure "auto_load" line 13)
    invoked from within
"auto_load $name [uplevel 1 {::namespace current}]"
    (autoloading "::tk::dialog::file::chooseDir::")
    invoked from within
"::tk::dialog::file::chooseDir:: -parent .destLoc -initialdir
/usr/local/syncad"
    ("eval" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"eval ::tk::dialog::file::chooseDir:: $args"
    (procedure "tk_chooseDirectory" line 2)
    invoked from within
"tk_chooseDirectory  -parent .destLoc -initialdir /usr/local/syncad"
    invoked from within
".destLoc.but37 invoke"
    ("uplevel" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"uplevel #0 [list $w invoke]"
    (procedure "tk::ButtonUp" line 22)
    invoked from within
"tk::ButtonUp .destLoc.but37"
    (command bound to event)

Re: [Installbase-devel] Can't select install directory on Linux

[Damon C. <da...@yo...>]

> When I try to change the install directory (the "Browse" button in the
> Choose Destination Location dialog), it gives me the error "couldn't read
> file ... choosedir.tcl".  The full stack dump is at the end of this message.
> This happened when I tried to install InstallBase itself, and when I am
> using an installer I generated with it.  I'm running on a system that only
> has tk8.3 installed, if that matters.
> 
> I did a little digging around, and figured it might be a problem with the
> tclkit.  I had never heard of tclkit before (pretty neat piece of software,
> though...), but I wasn't going to let that stop me.  I grabbed the latest
> tclkit and dropped it into place, but after that I got errors whenever I
> tried to build an installer.
> 
> So I'm out of half-baked ideas.  Any suggestions on how to get rid of this
> error?

    Yeah, this was actually a bug that was discovered right after the
1.0a5 release.  I fixed it pretty quickly, but I'm still not ready to
release a6.  I released a patch to fix the problem.  Download this file:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/installbase/common.tcl?download

    And drop the common.tcl into your lib/ directory, replacing the old
one.  That should fix your problem. 0-]

Damon