[YLUG] installing wish binary

[Roger Leigh]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:03:58PM +0000, nigel white wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am trying to install Remind and in particular the TkRemind GUI that
> goes with it. See the man page at http://linux.die.net/man/1/tkremind.
> 
> I got Remind from the Ubuntu repository.
> 
> It says it needs Tcl.
> I found and Installed the following packages:
> tcl (8.4.16-1)
> tcl8.4 (8.4.16-4ubuntu1)
> 
> I did "sudo apt-get install wish" and got
> 
> Package wish is a virtual package provided by:
>   tk8.4 8.4.16-2ubuntu1.1
>   tk8.5 8.5.0-3
>   tk8.3 8.3.5-12ubuntu1
> You should explicitly select one to install.
> 
> Now I'm stuck. Such is the life of a newbie.

You need to install Tk, with the same version number as the
version of Tcl installed.  In your case, 8.4 (tk8.4).

Note that programs need specific versions of Tcl/Tk, so
you need to install the version that TkRemind wants.


Regards,
Roger

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