Latest SCID linux

[menniepals]

I downloaded Scid Linux and I noticed it already came with a pre-compiled Scid. I tried to run it by clicking it but it won't run. Any suggestions? Thanks, Alfred

[Fulvio]

Which Linux distro do you use?
Assuming that you have downloaded this:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scid/f ... z/download
uncompressed the file and opened a terminal to that directory
(I have updated the file, previously the the tar.gz file was contained inside a zip)
it should start typing "scid/scid"

[menniepals]

Linux Mint 19/Scid 4.7.1

[AdminX]

I downloaded Scid Linux and I noticed it already came with a pre-compiled Scid. I tried to run it by clicking it but it won't run. Any suggestions? Thanks, Alfred

Did you do a 'chmod' on the binary or shell script?

[royb]

I downloaded Scid Linux and I noticed it already came with a pre-compiled Scid. I tried to run it by clicking it but it won't run. Any suggestions? Thanks, Alfred

I tried to run scid on my Linux Mint 20.2 system and saw this:

./scid
application-specific initialization failed: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
/home/vsts/work/1/s/tcltk/lib/tcl8.6 /home/roy/chess/lib/tcl8.6 /home/roy/lib/tcl8.6 /home/roy/chess/library /home/roy/library /home/roy/tcl8.6.10/library /home/tcl8.6.10/library



This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.

can't find package Tk 8.5
while executing
"package require Tk 8.5"
(file "/home/roy/chess/scid-4.7.1/tcl/start.tcl" line 37)



So this seems to be a binary built with a dependency on Tk 8.5, which is an old version (at least on my Linux Mint system). Perhaps recompiling it on your system will provide a working binary? I don't see a Makefile though, so compiling it will be more work than many are willing to slog through, myself included.

[Marek Soszynski]

I had this problem a long time ago, but no longer. My old notes say try installing some or all of these...

tcl
zlib1g-dev
tcl-dev
tk
libgtk-3-dev
tk8.6
tk8.6-dev

[Fulvio]

I tried to run scid on my Linux Mint 20.2 system and saw this:

When I have time I will install Mint in a VM and see what the problem is.
Just to be clear, the file you downloaded is this:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scid/f ... z/download
right?
Because that file also contains the Tcl / Tk 8.6.10 library

can't find package Tk 8.5
while executing
"package require Tk 8.5"
(file "/home/roy/chess/scid-4.7.1/tcl/start.tcl" line 37)

So this seems to be a binary built with a dependency on Tk 8.5

That command specify the minimum version:
https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/package+require
The message "/home/roy/chess/lib/tcl8.6" says it is searching for a tcl8.6 version.
The procedure by which a static linked Tcl finds Tk is complicated, but in short it requires an extra directory
(for example, the archive mentioned above also contains the Tcl/Tk 8.6.10 library and extracting it you get two directories: scid_linux/scid and scid_linux/lib. The two folders must remain in the same directory).

Perhaps recompiling it on your system will provide a working binary? I don't see a Makefile though, so compiling it will be more work than many are willing to slog through, myself included.

To compile it is necessary to download the source code:
https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/code/ci/master/tree/ (Download Snapshot)
and have the tcl/tk library installed in the system (sudo apt install tcl-dev tk).
It can be done with the usual
./configure && make
or with cmake.

[menniepals]

Thank you. It now works. Do you have a link for a Windows version? Thanks. Alfred

[Fulvio]

Thank you. It now works. Do you have a link for a Windows version? Thanks. Alfred

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scid/f ... p/download

[Fulvio]

I installed Mint 20.2 Cinnamon (I haven't tried Mint in a while, it seems to work well. Installation was super quick and easy).

I launched Firefox and downloaded SCID from SourceForge:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scid/f ... t/download
and extracted the archive in the user's home (it creates a /home/user/scid_linux directory).
Then I opened the GNOME terminal and with the command

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scid_linux/scid/scid

it started without problems.

Adding a launcher to the bottom bar also works fine (so that it can be started without the terminal).