Expect

[Shawn Hamby]

Trying to install Expect on HP-UX 10.20.

Have the expect port, as well as the tcl port, but I can not find a port for Tk8.0p2 which is needed for expect. Does anyone have the necessary libraries I need for 10.20?

[John Bolene]

I installed expect 5.33, tcl 8.2.1 and tk 8.2.1 on UX 11.0

I don't think the products support 10.20

That reason made me upgrade to 11.0

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Try it from here

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Tcl/expect-5.37/

You can click on Dependencies to get to TCL/TK. That should be enough for you to run expect.

-Sri

[Shawn Hamby]

According to that site, which is where I originally got expect and tcl:

"Requires Tcl 8.0p2, which is available in this category and can also use tk 8.0p2."

I found tcl 8.0p2, but I can not find tk 8.0p2, they don't have it on the site. I tried installing the latest tk, and the expect install fails because of a lack of a dependancy.

Do you know where I can get the depot for tk8.0p2?

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I think the depot was not created right as well tcltk not compiled to create libtcl.sl that expect looks for. You can go ahead and download both the depots. Install tcltk depot first. Then install expect. Make sure you make "dependencies off" in the options menu while installing expect.

Once it is done, create a link to /opt/expect/lib to /opt/tcl??/tcl/lib/libtcl??.sl as libtcl.sl


#ln -s /opt/tcl??/tcl/lib/libtcl??.sl /opt/expect/lib/libtcl.sl

Replace ?? with the version of tcl that gets installed.


Then try running expect.

-Sri

[Shawn Hamby]

Thank you, that worked great. I now have expect working on 10.20.

Quick question, from within an Expect script, how do I hide the standard output? I noticed it displays the commands in the script, and I would like to hide that output. Can I redirect that output to null?

[Chris Wilshaw]

Yes, you should be able to redirect standard output to /dev/null (or a log file) from the command line

eg:

my_script.exp > /dev/null