Does Caius work with CentOS ?

[bobpac00]

Hi -

I was wondering if Caius will work with CentOS 6.6 ? I noticed you had installation notes for Debian and Ubuntu but I'm wondering about RedHat/CentOS.

Thanks,

Bob

[tobia...@gmail.com]

Hi Bob,

yes, you can use Caius on CentOS, but it requires some extra work.

Caius requires Tcl 8.6, but CentOS 6 (and it seems also 7) only ships Tcl 8.5 and not all dependencies are available.

You can backport recent versions of Tcl, tcllib, tdom and Expect from Fedora.

Try this at your own risk!

Install the "development tools" group:

    yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

Install some extra build dependencies for Tcl:

    yum install zlib-devel expat-devel libx11-devel libXft-devel chrpath gdbm-devel

Download relevant Tcl source packages from Fedora:

    mkdir ~/srpms

    cd ~/srpms

    wget http://fedora.aau.at/linux/releases/23/Everything/source/SRPMS/t/tcl-8.6.4-1.fc23.src.rpm

    wget http://fedora.aau.at/linux/releases/23/Everything/source/SRPMS/t/tcllib-1.17-1.fc23.src.rpm

    wget http://fedora.aau.at/linux/releases/23/Everything/source/SRPMS/t/tdom-0.8.2-19.fc23.src.rpm

    wget http://fedora.aau.at/linux/releases/23/Everything/source/SRPMS/t/tk-8.6.4-2.fc23.src.rpm

    wget http://fedora.aau.at/linux/releases/23/Everything/source/SRPMS/e/expect-5.45-20.fc23.src.rpm

    wget http://fedora.aau.at/linux/releases/23/Everything/source/SRPMS/i/itcl-4.0.3-3.fc23.src.rpm

First build Tcl itself:

    cd ~/srpms

    rpmbuild --rebuild tcl-8.6.4-1.fc23.src.rpm

Install the resulting packages to the system:

    cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/

    rpm -Uvh tcl-8.6.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm tcl-devel-8.6.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

Now build Tk:

    cd ~/srpms

    rpmbuild --rebuild tk-8.6.4-2.fc23.src.rpm

Again install the packages to the system:

    cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/

    rpm -Uvh tk-8.6.4-2.el6.x86_64.rpm tk-devel-8.6.4-2.el6.x86_64.rpm

Then continue building the remaining packages:

    cd ~/srpms

    rpmbuild --rebuild tcllib-1.17-1.fc23.src.rpm

    rpmbuild --rebuild tdom-0.8.2-19.fc23.src.rpm

    rpmbuild --rebuild expect-5.45-20.fc23.src.rpm

    rpmbuild --rebuild itcl-4.0.3-3.fc23.src.rpm

Install tcllib:

    cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch

    rpm -Uvh tcllib-1.17-1.el6.noarch.rpm

Install tdom, Expect and Itcl:

    cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/

    rpm -Uvh tdom-0.8.2-19.el6.x86_64.rpm expect-5.45-20.el6.x86_64.rpm \

        itcl-4.0.3-3.el6.x86_64.rpm

Now the last thing missing is the Thread package. I didn't find an SRPM of a recent version,

so compiling from source will have to do for now:

    wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/tcl/Thread%20Extension/2.7.3/thread2.7.3.tar.gz

    tar xvf thread2.7.3.tar.gz

    cd thread2.7.3

    ./configure \

        --prefix=/usr \

        --exec-prefix=/usr \

        --bindir=/usr/bin \

        --sbindir=/usr/sbin \

        --sysconfdir=/etc \

        --datadir=/usr/share \

        --includedir=/usr/include \

        --libdir=/usr/lib64/tcl8.6 \

        --libexecdir=/usr/libexec \

        --localstatedir=/var \

        --sharedstatedir=/var/lib \

        --mandir=/usr/share/man \

        --infodir=/usr/share/info \

        --enable-threads

    make install

After all this, Caius should install fine using the "install.tcl" script in the

source distribution.

Best regards,

Tobias