[Pkg-tcltk-devel] tk: missing symlink from wish8.6 to wish

[Sergei Golovan]

Hi Stefan,

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Schindler Stefan <sschindl at hsr.ch> wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
>
>    * What led up to the situation?
> I would like to use gitk with the standard debian installation, wich uses
> tk.
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
> I installed the package with synaptic
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> the package became visible. But gitk only look for wish and does not look
> for wish8.6 so it does not start
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> gitk would start up normally
>
> I fixed this by adding a symlink:
>
> # ln -s ./wish8.6 /usr/bin/wish
>
> I would be very happy if you fixed it.

As you can see (in fact, it's what I can see on my Debian jessie
workstation, though this should be the same everywhere):

1) % head -n 4 /usr/bin/gitk
#!/bin/sh
# Tcl ignores the next line -*- tcl -*- \
exec wish "$0" -- "$@"

so, you're absolutely correct, gitk wants to execute wish.

2) ~% ls -al /usr/bin/wish
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar  8  2014 /usr/bin/wish -> wish8.6

In contrast with your setup, I have /usr/bin/wish linked to wish8.6.
Where did it come from?

3) % dpkg -S /usr/bin/wish
tk: /usr/bin/wish

It came from the tk package. Let's look into the gitk dependencies:

4) % apt-cache show gitk |grep Depends
Depends: git (>> 1:2.1.4), git (<< 1:2.1.4-.), tk

The tk package is present, so when you install gitk (using any tool
like synaptic, or apt, or apt-get, or aptitude) it should pull in tk
which should install the /usr/bin/wish symlink.

Could you try to run all 4 above commands and look if their output is
different? Also, tell me which distirbution you're currently using and
which versions of the gitk, tk and tk8.6 packages are installed in
your system.

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan