Re: [cobalt-security] tcl upgrade

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Mez" <mez@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I want to upgrade the version of TCL on my Raq3 to version 8.3

Can you share why?

> however when i try using the rpm I am told:
> libtcl8.0.so is needed by postgresql-server-6.5.2-C2
>         libtcl8.0.so is needed by postgresql-tcl-6.5.2-C2
>         libtcl8.0.so is needed by tclx-8.0.4-29
>         libtcl8.0.so is needed by tk-8.0.4-29
>
> So I assume I need to upgrade the version os postgresql before I can
upgrade
> TCL version,

You can upgrade TCL by RPM now, it just may break PostgreSQL, which would in
turn break the GUI.

> Has anyone successfully upgraded the postgresql server on an raq3 ?

I'd expect problems if you upgrade it *and* use the GUI.  If you don't use
the GUI then it's not an issue.  I've always installed a new copy of
PostgreSQL when I needed it and left the existing copy alone.  I suggest
installing libtcl from source to a non-standard location so you won't break
the dependencies with PostgreSQL and the others listed above.  If you can
find the libtcl source RPMs you can probably rebuild them to accomplish the
same.  You never said why you wanted to upgrade tcl, but whatever program
you're planning on installing should have a way to tell it the location of
libtcl so you'd just have to point it to the location of the more recent
copy.

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