[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#889810: Bug#889810: Bug#889810: tk: 'wish' gives console error message; tclsh can't find package Tk

[Sergei Golovan]

Hi Jasper.

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Jasper Taylor <jasper at simulistics.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for looking at my problem. I don't have anything relevant under
> /usr/local -- the search paths are built into the package.
>
> I also have access to a Debian system with tk 8.6.0+8 installed. On this
> system, I run tclsh and type
>
> set auto_path
>
> and get
>
> /usr/share/tcltk/tcl8.6 /usr/share/tcltk /usr/lib /usr/local/lib/tcltk
> /usr/local/share/tcltk /usr/lib/tcltk/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/tcltk
> /usr/lib/tcltk/tcl8.6

That's a typical auto_path value on a Debian system.

>
> and then running
>
> package require Tk
>
> returns 8.6.2 and opens a toplevel Tk window.

Which is as it should be.

>
> Now on my own system with tk 8.6.0+9 I run tclsh and type
>
> set auto_path
>
> and get
>
> /usr/local/lib/tcl8.6 /usr/local/lib /usr/lib

This likely means that you run not /usr/bin/tclsh, or your /usr/bin/tclsh
is not a link to /usr/bin/tclsh8.6, or maybe there's some other unknown yet
problem.

Can you show the output of

ls -al /usr/bin/tclsh*

(for me it currenly outputs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    8 Nov 20  2015 /usr/bin/tclsh -> tclsh8.6*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6336 Mar 21  2016 /usr/bin/tclsh8.5*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6352 Jul 28  2016 /usr/bin/tclsh8.6*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6280 Jan 12 12:03 /usr/bin/tclsh8.7*
)

and the output of

which tclsh

(for me it outputs
/usr/bin/tclsh
)

And what if you execute /usr/bin/tclsh instead of tclsh?

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan