[OS X TeX] XCircuit - slightly OT

[Herbert Schulz]

On May 14, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

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> Am 14.05.2010 um 18:52 schrieb Christopher T. Allen 95:
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>> Can anyone help me with this?
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> 
> Fink and MacPorts offer XCircuit 3.4, Fink has the XCircuit-testing (3.6.140) package.
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> The problem can be in Snow Leopard's Wish.app, part of TclTk, it can be in XCircuit. You could try to invoke tlmgr with the --gui option. Then tlmgr with launch in X11 as a TclTk window. If it fails similarly then it's likely that SL's TclTk is faulty.
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> --
> Greetings
> 
>  Pete
> 

Howdy,

Here's what I get in Snow Leopard:

$ tlmgr --gui

Cannot load Tk, thus the GUI cannot be started!
The Perl/Tk module is not shipped with the TeX Live installation.
You have to install it to get tlmgr GUI running. See
http://tug.org/texlive/distro.html for more details.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)