Scid 4.4 Install (Ubuntu 13.04)

I cannot install Scid 4.4 at my PC, which runs Ubuntu Linux 13.04.

When I try ./configure at the folder this is the message that I get.

I had a similar problem which I could not fix despite reading tons of posts in forums all around. I love and use only linux and I hate most of softwares are only for WIndows... Anyway the solution I found is to download the Windows version of Scid (http://scid.sourceforge.net/) then install it on Wine, which you can get from the Software Manager. It worked for me very well 

Install Windows. Join the dark side. What is the point of running Linux if you end up using Windows software + wine?

@Tyrrhenus

Thank you foryour answer.

@Raja_Kentut

I also have a windows partition, but because I use linux the most, I would prefer to have Scid installed there.

sudo apt-get install tk8.5

sudo apt-get install tcl8.5

You're welcome.

-Izmet

Hi Pythonas. Just a couple of days back I compiled Scid for Ubuntu 13.10 and I suspect the same steps will apply to you too. Basically make is complaining that it is not able to find the tcl and tk headers/libs on your system since they're probably not installed. Open Synaptic package manager and search for 'tcl' and 'tk' and in the search locate the 'tcl8.5-dev' and 'tk8.5-dev' packages and install them. That should do the trick and you can redo ./configure and make and it should compile successfully. Good luck!

If for some reason you don't have Synaptic installed you can install the same two packages from the command line by:

sudo apt-get install tcl8.5-dev and

sudo apt-get install tk8.5-dev

That's even better.

-Izmet

Thank you both for your answers, but I already have tcl8.5-dev and tk8.5-dev installed.

At least that is what Synaptic says.

Just buy an Android phone.

Compiling packages under Debian/ Ubuntu is a major pain in the butt, let alone installing them in a clean way.

I think that scid 4.4 requires a higher version of tcl/tk, namely 8.6+

Just compare all that to the ease one can build and install scid under Archlinux and its derivatives, like Manjaro Linux. You just open a terminal window, and type in

yaourt -Sy scid

...and that's all, provided that AUR has a buildscript for that particular application. All dependencies are automatiucally installed, and the package is being built and installed with no user intervention (well, actually you do have to give a few trivial yes/no confirmations during the build, and that's all). No file overwrites which can damage your system, no dependencies' issues, FULL uninstallation including useless dependencies is a simple "yaourt -Rcns scid" away.

What about:

sudo apt-get install tcl-lib (or)

sudo apt-get install tcl8.5-lib (if you don't want to install the metapackage)

and

sudo apt-get install tk-lib (or tk8.5-lib)

This should stop make from complaining now I think. :-)