how to install tcl on solaris sparc

Question

I have a solaris machine configuration: SunOS indevel07 5.10 Generic_147440-15 sun4v sparc sun4v. I am trying to install expect utility on this. expect utility requires tcl to be installed. I have tried to install that too, but i am getting errors. I have downloaded the tcl-8.5.12-sol10-sparc-local.gz and expect-5.45-sol10-sparc-local.gz from sunfreeware. I have unzipped them and tried to install them like pkgadd -d pkgname. I am getting errors like:

ERROR: attribute verification of </usr/local/man/man3/Tcl_Seek.3> failed
    pathname does not exist

There are lots of errors like this. I tried to troubleshoot it by googling but could not find anything about it. I am stuck with my development because of this.

Answer 1

For those who want to install tcl please refer this URL. it has got steps to do that. URL: http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1174_Installing-Tcl-and-Expect-on-Solaris-10-a-checklist.html

Answer 2

Try building Tcl/Tk and Expect from the source. Here is the instruction - How to Compile Tcl. Expect download - Obtaining Expect for UNIX. That worked for me on Solaris 10 and I did not hit any serious bumps.