ds9 does not work on intrepid amd64

[rahman]

Binary package hint: saods9

Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

saods9:
  Installed: 4.0b7-2
  Candidate: 4.0b7-2
  Version table:

This build depends on libtk8.4, however while running 'ds9' from the command line, it fails with:

ds9: error while loading shared libraries: libtk8.5.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After installing libtk8.5 it still fails with:

version conflict for package "Tcl": have 8.4, need 8.5
couldn't open "/usr/lib/tclIndex": no such file or directory
    while executing
"open [file join $dir tclIndex]"

I'm running Intrepid on amd64.

[Dominique Eckert (dom-eckert)]

This bug also affects me. DS9 seems to expect Tcl 8.5, while only Tcl 8.4 is available in the repositories.

[Keith Hughitt (keith-hughitt)]

Also affects me on 32-bit Intrepid.

8.5 is available in the repos for me and I've installed it, but no luck. I also tried creating symbolic links to the "missing" file, but it seemed to just look elsewhere:

version conflict for package "Tcl": have 8.4, need 8.5
couldn't open "/usr/local/lib/tcltk/tclIndex": no such file or directory
    while executing
"open [file join $dir tclIndex]"

[ivanmladek (pavel-jhu)]

Also affects me on 64-bit inrepid.
Linux ivanmladek-laptop 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Thu Oct 30 04:12:22 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[ivanmladek (pavel-jhu)]

Found a workaround:
wget http://hea-www.harvard.edu/saord/download/ds9/source/ds9.5.4.tar.gz
tar xvf ds9.5.4.tar.gz

[ivanmladek (pavel-jhu)]

cd saods9
wget http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/portage/sci-astronomy/ds9/files/ds9-5.4-gcc43.patch
patch -p1 < ds9-5.4-gcc43.patch
ln -s make.linux64 make.include #(depending on your installation, see README)
make

Voila! It should work.

[tmothe (mothe74-outros)]

I cant make ivanmladek' solution work in my 64-bit intrepid. "make" gives lots of errors like:

~/saods9/tk8.4.18/unix/../generic/tk3d.c:1280: error: ‘Tk_FakeWin’ has no member named ‘screenNum’
or

~/saods9/tk8.4.18/unix/../generic/tk3d.c:1222: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘int’)

Any idea?

[bkloppenborg (bkloppenborg)]

Again, another workaround but this one doesn't involve compiling anything... simply replace the executable.

Instructions below for 64-bit Linux (32-bit packages here: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/)

wget http://hea-www.harvard.edu/saord/download/ds9/linux64/ds9.linux64.5.4.tar.gz
tar xvf ds9.linux64.5.4.tar.gz
sudo mv ./ds9 /usr/bin/ds9

[tmothe (mothe74-outros)]

Thanks!

[JunCTionS (junctions)]

Just to keep things current.
go to http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/ and download whatever is under the Linux64 link instead of wget the broken link.
It used to be working out of the box for Kubuntu but now it seems to fail with 9.10.
Thanks for this "workaround" I guess it'll get fixed when repositories update this piece of software.

[Ole Streicher (olebole)]

saods9 6.2+dfsg-2 was uploaded for Quantal which fixes the problem there.