[YLUG] installing wish binary

[nigel white]

Thank you Roger.

That worked a treat.

Nigel



On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 23:34 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> 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
>