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Chethan S.
Asked: 2010-10-18 22:10:43 +0800 CST

configure: error: *** Unable to locate Tk includes

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I am trying to install the latest stable release of GRASS GIS from SVN. In the stage of running configure command I get the following error at the last stage. 

checking for location of Tcl/Tk includes... /usr/include/tcl8.5
checking for tcl.h... yes
checking for tk.h... no
configure: error: *** Unable to locate Tk includes.

The command I run for configuration is - 

./configure --with-tcltk-includes=/usr/include/tcl8.5 --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj

Can anyone suggest me what I am missing?

configuration compiling

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It would appear to be tk8.5-dev you can install it by doing sudo apt-get install tk8.5-dev

    To find out missing files in the future you can use apt-file (sudo apt-get install apt-file). After installing do apt-file update and then you can search for your missing file. For example in this case I did apt-file search tk.h and it brought up tk8.5-dev.

    Another neat trick is if the package already exists in the repositories (it does as grass) you can do sudo apt-get build-dep PACKAGE (in this case sudo apt-get build-dep grass) which will install all the dependancies for GRASS allowing you to compile it with ease.

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