Scidb was finally installed and running well after numerous fixes in ubuntu 22.04. Then today is starts and before it finishes loading I get this error in the terminal. I don't have a clue how to fix this. Please help.
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'tcl::Exception'
Aborted (core dumped)
Hello,
I just tried to install Scidb and got exactly the same error message.
TCL/ Tk version 8.6
Operation system is Linux 6.8.02-62-generic
Version 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)
Checking if your system has gcc installed: yes but existing gcc version 13.3 is too old.
The required version is 3.4 and higher...
13.3 is higher and newer so I assume there is an error in the script which is checking the gcc version. Perhaps it only checked the first digit.. this would be a 1 and then it said is to old.
How can I fix it...
By running this error no make file will be created...
Thanks for your help in advance
Kind regards
// Peter
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For some reason scidb thinks any gcc above 9 is older than it is. It seems to ignore the first digit. I have a tutorial with a fix for that and some othe issues which works fine still as I installed in on a new computer a few days ago. See attachment. This file should also still be on the scidb discussion forum. Email me if this doesn't work.
Hello,
I just tried to install Scidb and got exactly the same error message.
TCL/ Tk version 8.6
Operation system is Linux 6.8.02-62-generic
Version 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)
Checking if your system has gcc installed: yes but existing gcc version 13.3 is too old.
The required version is 3.4 and higher...
13.3 is higher and newer so I assume there is an error in the script which is checking the gcc version. Perhaps it only checked the first digit.. this would be a 1 and then it said is to old.
How can I fix it...
By running this error no make file will be created...
Thanks for your help in advance
Kind regards
// Peter
Hello Carol.
what a great tutorial you made . It worked very well. The only change I did was that I put in the "make" after "./configure". I did not do this at first by following the instruction I got an error message the # include <sys sysctl.h=""> in line 30 was missing..
Now I can use Scidb and the progamm worked well also.
Thanks for all the effort and time you invest and thanks for the great support.
Kind regards
// Peter</sys>
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I believe the tutorial says make clean after ./configure then sudo make install
let me know if I should change that
I spent days screwing around to get it to work as I love the program &I hope sometime they can make a deb file so ordinary blokes could use it in ubuntu or debian
Hello Carol.
what a great tutorial you made . It worked very well. The only change I did was that I put in the "make" after "./configure". I did not do this at first by following the instruction I got an error message the # include <sys sysctl.h=""> in line 30 was missing..
Now I can use Scidb and the progamm worked well also.
Thanks for all the effort and time you invest and thanks for the great support.
Kind regards
// Peter</sys>
Hello Carol,
meanwhile I install it on Lubuntu 24.04.04 and under Linux Mint 22 also. Both times it went well after making the suggested change in the script.
Thanks a lot for your effort and time you invest to provide this great solution.
Kind regards
// Peter
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Scidb was finally installed and running well after numerous fixes in ubuntu 22.04. Then today is starts and before it finishes loading I get this error in the terminal. I don't have a clue how to fix this. Please help.
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'tcl::Exception'
Aborted (core dumped)
Carol & Denny McAnulty
cmcanulty@hotmail.com
Hello,
I just tried to install Scidb and got exactly the same error message.
TCL/ Tk version 8.6
Operation system is Linux 6.8.02-62-generic
Version 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)
Checking if your system has gcc installed: yes but existing gcc version 13.3 is too old.
The required version is 3.4 and higher...
13.3 is higher and newer so I assume there is an error in the script which is checking the gcc version. Perhaps it only checked the first digit.. this would be a 1 and then it said is to old.
How can I fix it...
By running this error no make file will be created...
Thanks for your help in advance
Kind regards
// Peter
For some reason scidb thinks any gcc above 9 is older than it is. It seems to ignore the first digit. I have a tutorial with a fix for that and some othe issues which works fine still as I installed in on a new computer a few days ago. See attachment. This file should also still be on the scidb discussion forum. Email me if this doesn't work.
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Hello,
I just tried to install Scidb and got exactly the same error message.
TCL/ Tk version 8.6
Operation system is Linux 6.8.02-62-generic
Version 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)
Checking if your system has gcc installed: yes but existing gcc version 13.3 is too old.
The required version is 3.4 and higher...
13.3 is higher and newer so I assume there is an error in the script which is checking the gcc version. Perhaps it only checked the first digit.. this would be a 1 and then it said is to old.
How can I fix it...
By running this error no make file will be created...
Thanks for your help in advance
Kind regards
// Peter
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Hello Carol.
what a great tutorial you made . It worked very well. The only change I did was that I put in the "make" after "./configure". I did not do this at first by following the instruction I got an error message the # include <sys sysctl.h=""> in line 30 was missing..
Now I can use Scidb and the progamm worked well also.
Thanks for all the effort and time you invest and thanks for the great support.
Kind regards
// Peter</sys>
I believe the tutorial says make clean after ./configure then sudo make install
let me know if I should change that
I spent days screwing around to get it to work as I love the program &I hope sometime they can make a deb file so ordinary blokes could use it in ubuntu or debian
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Sent: Monday, February 9, 2026 3:26 AM
To: [scidb:discussion] general@discussion.scidb.p.re.sourceforge.net
Subject: [scidb:discussion] failure
Hello Carol.
what a great tutorial you made . It worked very well. The only change I did was that I put in the "make" after "./configure". I did not do this at first by following the instruction I got an error message the # include <sys sysctl.h=""> in line 30 was missing..
Now I can use Scidb and the progamm worked well also.
Thanks for all the effort and time you invest and thanks for the great support.
Kind regards
// Peter</sys>
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Hello Carol,
meanwhile I install it on Lubuntu 24.04.04 and under Linux Mint 22 also. Both times it went well after making the suggested change in the script.
Thanks a lot for your effort and time you invest to provide this great solution.
Kind regards
// Peter