Bug#773424: tcl-vtk6 is unusable

Mathieu Malaterre malat at debian.org
Thu Dec 18 09:07:51 UTC 2014


Package: tcl-vtk6
Version: 6.1.0+dfsg2-4
Severity: grave

This is not clear how one should use tcl-vtk6, it does not provide the
wish interpreter anymore (aka `vtk` runtime binary). I do not believe
the package is usable by anyone.

If I build vtk6 package locally and execute it:

$ sudo apt-get install tcl-vtk6 vtk6-examples
$ apt-get source vtk6
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
$ ./debian/build/bin/vtk
/usr/share/doc/vtk6-examples/examples/Examples/Tutorial/Step2/Tcl/Cone2.tcl
couldn't load file "/usr/lib/libvtkCommonCoreTCL-6.1.so":
/usr/lib/libvtkCommonCoreTCL-6.1.so: cannot open shared object file:
No such file or directory
attempt to provide package vtkCommonCoreTCL 6.1 failed: no version of
package vtkCommonCoreTCL provided
attempt to provide package vtkcommoncore 6.1 failed: no version of
package vtkcommoncore provided
Error in startup script: attempt to provide package vtk 6.1 failed: no
version of package vtk provided
    ("package ifneeded vtk 6.1" script)
    invoked from within
"package.orig require vtk"
    ("eval" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"eval package.orig $args"
    (procedure "package" line 2)
    invoked from within
"package require vtk"
    (file "/usr/share/doc/vtk6-examples/examples/Examples/Tutorial/Step2/Tcl/Cone2.tcl"
line 17)



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