Install Expect in Linux

Install Expect in Linux

Introduction:

As per wiki "Expect is a Unix automation and testing tool for interactive applications such as telnet, ftp,  fsck, rlogin, ssh, and others".

From man page "Expect is a program that "talks" to other interactive programs according to a script".

Release:

RedHat Enterprise Linux

Problem:

Need to install the "expect" package in RHEL Server for scripting.

Solution:

1)    Download the ecpect package from the below link

                        http://sourceforge.net/projects/expect/

2)    Install the required dependecy packages "Tcl/Tk" language toolkit

                        # yum install tcl

3)    Install the "expect" package using the below commands

            # tar -zxvf expectx.xx.tar.gz

            # ./configure

            # make

            # make install