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Your license file for Expect for Windows is invalid

Muthu — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:25:16 +0000

Successfully installed Expect after tcl 8.5 using
teacup install Expect, as shown below:

Installing into C:/Tcl/lib/teapot

Installing package Expect 5.43 win32-ix86

Problems which occurred during the operation:
* http://teapot.activestate.com : Sizes not matching for compresse
The system used slow(er) remote queries to keep working.

issue:
when tried to give the command
"package require Expect" from tclsh85, it went in vain as:

% package require Expect
Your license file for Expect for Windows is invalid.
To purchase or upgrade a license, or to obtain a free evaluation license pleas
visit: http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/ASPN_Tcl

Email: Sales@ActiveState.com
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1. can anyone throw light to solve this issue?
2. tried removing & installing Expect again :(
is the above the correct way to install Expect?

looking forward to your solution.
thanks :)

I have almost the same

b00 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:46:10 +0000

I have almost the same problem. I cannot install Expect package with teacup because we have proxy auth. On this forum I have got an advise to use autoproxy with teacup, but... eventually I have not it in 8.5.5 too.

The question how to install Expect (or any other package) w/o Internet is still actual for me.

updated

grahams — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:03:53 +0100

The FAQ has been updated to clarify the issue around Expect on ActiveTcl 8.5.

Tcl 8.5 and Expect

jomahony — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:46:39 +0100

I have installed Tcl 8.5 and am having the same problems described here activating expect. It appears that to use teacup the server needs to have access to the internet. Is that correct?
If so how do I activate the expect package if the computer I wish to do this on does not have access to the internet?

can't find package Expect

edwin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:26:40 +0000

Greetings.
I have installed ActiveTcl 8.4.18.0 and TclDevKit 4.0.4 (trial license), I need to generate a executable of my script tcl.

I use tclsh and it works well, but, generating an executable from TclDevKit with the following command:

tclapp.exe -prefix C:\Tcl\bin\base-tk-thread-win32-ix86.exe -out myapp.exe C:\Tcl\demos\Expect\mejorcito.tcl

At the moment I have the following files in C:\Tcl\bin:

base-tcl-thread-win32-ix86.exe
base-tk-thread-win32-ix86.exe

mejorcito.tcl is a script that use expect and below it is the code:

#!/bin/sh
# \
exec tclsh "$0" ${1+"$@"}

# This is required to declare that we will use Expect
package require Expect

# 1. Open a telnet session
spawn telnet 10.0.0.3

I get the following error message:

can't find package Expect while executing "package require Expect" (file "C:/TclDevKit/bin/myapp.exe/lib/application/Tcl/demos/Expect/mejorcito.tcl" line 37) invoked from within "source $startup" (file "C:/TclDevKit/bin/myapp.exe/main.tcl" line 51)

Please help my to find a solution
My email is: bermudezdouglas@hotmail.com

Still getting 404 errors

deniseshoup — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:16:21 +0000

I tried about a dozen times yesterday, and again this morning, and I'm still getting the 404 error. I am able to get to teapot.activestate.com via browser, and I downloaded the .zip file containing expect.tcl, expect543.dll, injector.dll, pkgIndex.tcl, and teapot.txt - can someone tell me how to install these?

Still can't install or find Expect!

mikeehamm — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:42:59 +0000

There should be a better way to achieve the usage of Expect with the latest release of Tcl, similar to the older versions. The issue is when trying to do a "package require Expect" from within a Tcl/Tk program in order to utilize the Expect commands, at least for my needs. If it works for the older releases, there should be an upward similarity with the newer release.

404 errors from teacup

grahams — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:29:16 +0000

If teacup reports 404 errors when installing Expect, or any other extension, it usually means that the ActiveState Teapot repository is offline for updating. This can happen any time between 4 AM and 11 AM Pacific Time. If it happens, try again in a few minutes. Generally, updates take no longer than half an hour.

can't find tclsh

grahams — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:26:03 +0000

Under ActiveTcl 8.5.0, when teacup reports that it can't find tclsh, you can usually work around the problem by starting tclsh85 and then running teacup from inside it.
c:>\tclsh85
%teacup install Expect

Teacup doesn't work for me, either...

deniseshoup — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:09:41 +0000

I installed 8.5, and tried the "teacup install Expect", with the following result:

C:\Tcl\bin>teacup install Expect
INTERNAL ERROR ______________________
INTERNAL ERROR Shell "c:\tcl\bin\tclsh.exe" does not exist
INTERNAL ERROR while executing
INTERNAL ERROR "CHECK $shell"
INTERNAL ERROR (procedure "platform::shell::platform" line 4)
INTERNAL ERROR invoked from within
INTERNAL ERROR "# Compiled -- no source code available
INTERNAL ERROR error "called a copy of a compiled script""
INTERNAL ERROR (procedure "::repository::client::Snit_methodDoResolve" line
1)
INTERNAL ERROR invoked from within
INTERNAL ERROR "# Compiled -- no source code available
INTERNAL ERROR error "called a copy of a compiled script""
INTERNAL ERROR (procedure "::repository::client::Snit_methodResolveEntity" l
ine 1)
INTERNAL ERROR invoked from within
INTERNAL ERROR "# Compiled -- no source code available
INTERNAL ERROR error "called a copy of a compiled script""
INTERNAL ERROR (procedure "::repository::client::Snit_methodinstallEntity" l
ine 1)
INTERNAL ERROR invoked from within
INTERNAL ERROR "# Compiled -- no source code available
INTERNAL ERROR error "called a copy of a compiled script""
INTERNAL ERROR (procedure "::repository::capp::Snit_methodinstall" line 1)
INTERNAL ERROR invoked from within
INTERNAL ERROR "::capp1 install Expect"
INTERNAL ERROR ("eval" body line 1)
INTERNAL ERROR invoked from within
INTERNAL ERROR "# Compiled -- no source code available
INTERNAL ERROR error "called a copy of a compiled script""
INTERNAL ERROR ______________________

C:\Tcl\bin>

Expect package not found!

mikeehamm — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:45:10 +0000

I Installed Tcl Version 8.5 on my Windows XP PC but when I included the line, "package require Expect" into my code, an error message pops up saying "Cant find package Expect"? I uninstalled Version 8.5 and reinstalled Version 8.4.14 and the Expect package gets installed. Is there something I missed, is the Expect extension included in Version 8.5? I would like to use Version 8.5, but since I need Expect, I will have to continue to use an older version. I also tried the "teacup install Expect" as instructed in the last post, without success.

Finding Expect

santhosh_kumar_d — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:10:36 +0000

The current ActiveTcl 8.5.0 comes with fewer default installed packages, and
you would use the "teacup" to obtain new ones. At the DOS prompt, try:

teacup install Expect

More info on the teacup is in the docs.

Expect

astillman — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:54:51 +0000

I also can not find Expect in my ActiveState Tcl-8.5 distribution for Linux.
"package require Expect" returns the same error.

Expect Package not found in ActiveState Tcl-8.5

santhosh_kumar_d — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:01:48 +0000

I installed the ActiveState Tcl-8.5 in my Windows machine but could not find the Expect package anywhere. I tried giving 'package require Expect' but it gives error --> "can't find package Expect". Please tell me as to where to fetch it up from. Thanks!