I'm guessing this wouldn't work on the empeg - http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActiveTcl
It says it's for IX-86. Will this work or not?

Nope, although it ought to be possible to build Tcl from source with a cross-compiler. What were you looking to use it for?

I wanted to start messing around on the empeg, and I know tcl very well so I figured I would start with that.

What are the chances of a compatible version already existing and what exactly should I be looking for? There are a few various ports listed here: http://resource.tcl.tk/resource/software/ports/, but I'm guessing I need something compiled for the ARM processor?

What are the chances of a compatible version already existing and what exactly should I be looking for?

You should be looking for this page of Roger's to explain how to unpack Debian packages, plus a Debian ARM binary package (arm.deb) of tcl. (I haven't actually done this, but it should just work.)

Peter

thanks, that was easy. It looks like it installed fine, but I can't seem to get tclsh to run. It put tclsh8.4 in /usr/bin. I tried typing tclsh and tclsh8.4, but it just says command not found. I'm still trying to figure linux out so this may be a dumb question, but is there anything I'm doing wrong here?

One thing you need to be aware of is that it might have run out of disk space -- did you see any errors when unpacking it?

Can you do the following steps and post the output?

df /
echo $PATH
ls -ld /usr/bin
ls -l /usr/bin

The first tells us whether you ran out of disk space on the root partition. The second tells us where it'll be looking for executables. The third tells us about your /usr/bin directory itself. The fourth tells us about what's in your /usr/bin directory.

I didn't get any errors when unpacking it. I think I may see the problem. I had mistakenly put data.tar.gz in /usr and ran the tar command from there, so there's actually a /usr/usr/bin instead of /usr/bin. I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not. Anyhow, here are the results from those commands.

empeg:/empeg/bin# df /

df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems: No such file or directory



Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on

-                        15863     13949      1914  88% /

empeg:/empeg/bin# echo $PATH

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/empeg/bin

empeg:/empeg/bin# ls -ld /usr/bin

ls: /usr/bin: No such file or directory

empeg:/empeg/bin# ls -ld /usr/usr/bin

drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0            1024 Jul 31 11:01 /usr/usr/bin

empeg:/empeg/bin# ls -l /usr/usr/bin

total 4

-rwxr-xr-x    1 0        0            3448 Jul 31 11:01 tclsh8.4

If that is the problem, should I just try it again from the root directory?

Yeah. .deb packages expect to be installed from the root directory.

Remove the (broken) installation by:

rm -r /usr/usr.

Alternatively, you can fix it by mv /usr/usr/* /usr, which should sort it out.

3.5k for tclsh? Is that right?

For now, try running "/usr/usr/bin/tclsh8.4" and see if it works. If so, do a "rm -rf /usr/usr" and then re-extract the tar file as you suggested.

Alright, so now it is at least running it, but...

empeg:/usr/bin# tclsh8.4

tclsh8.4: error in loading shared libraries: libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I suppose I will need to download another package?

Do you think this is what I need? http://debian.crosslink.net/debian/pool/main/libg/libgc/

or maybe t/tcllib? What the hell, I'll just put them both in.