[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Tcl/Tk possible error

[Sergei Golovan]

On 1/27/08, Francesco Rosso <echelon89 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> I've downloaded the source of tcl/tk 8.5 from your repository, but I think
> there's an error.
> When I run aMSN, compiled with your tcl/tk packages, it returns an error
> that say: "You can't load TkCximage, this is now needed to run amsn. Please
> compile amsn first, etc etc", so I run those following commands:
>
>     mv /usr/bin/wish /usr/bin/wish-bak-1
>     ln -s /usr/bin/wish8.5 /usr/bin/wish
>
> and everything is ok.
> I think that they have to be included in tk8.5-8.5/debian/tk8.5.postint ...
> and in tk8.5-8.5/debian/tk8.5.postint I think you have to include those
> commands:

Currently the default Tcl/Tk version in Debian is 8.4 (8.4.17 in
unstable and testing), and not 8.5. So, to use Tcl 8.5 one should run
/usr/bin/wish8.5 instead of /usr/bin/wish. If amsn requires Tcl/Tk 8.5
just replace 'exec wish $0' by 'exec wish8.5 $0' in amsn start script,
and it will work.

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Sergei Golovan