Unofficial repositories
deb http://ftp.45.free.net/pub/debian-cosy sarge local updates tcl
deb-src http://ftp.45.free.net/pub/debian-cosy sarge local updates tclContains ... I dunno ... lots of stuff
peterc 2008-11-17: "Firefox can't find the server at ftp.45.free.net." Link looks dead.
Packages available from official repositories
As the extensions are packaged separately it would be useful to have a list of cross references. This would help developers used to ActiveState TCL able to quickly set up their Debian environment.
First column is the option to tcl command package require, second column is the debian package as given to apt-get install, and third column is a description. This list is meant to track the unstable release policy.
Tcl tcl-8.4 The base tcl package
tcl-8.4-doc Tcl man pages
Tk tk-8.4 The base tk package
tk-8.4-doc Tk man pages
tcllib The Standard Tcl Library
Tclx tclx8.4 Extended Tcl (TclX) - shared library
tclx8.4-doc Extended Tcl (TclX) - manpages
Thread tclthread Script level access to Tcl threading
Img libtk-img Extended image format support for Tcl/Tk
snack libsnack2 Sound extension
Tktable tktable Table extension for Tcl/Tk
BLT blt BLT extension library for Tcl/Tk
Tix tix Tix library for Tk
... more packages to follow ...escargo 25 Oct 2007 - Note this Debian news: [L1 ]
As already announced to all interested maintainers whose packages depend on Tcl/Tk, there is an ongoing effort of drafting a policy for team maintenance of Tcl/Tk main packages and their modules/extensions. This is now an announce to the larger audience of all maintainers in order to inform also people who could be interested in packaging Tcl/Tk related packages in the next future.
See also: http://pkg-tcltk.alioth.debian.org/tcltk-policy.html/
escargo 21 Feb 2008 - Note this later Debian news (Making the recently released Tcl/Tk 8.5 the default package in Lenny.)
RLH 21 Feb 2008 - Are they looking for a maintainer? I just picked up a gig that makes me the Debian admin for a company. Once I get settled in and comfortable with Debian I would have no problem becoming the Debian package maintainer or one of them anyway.
escargo - You would have to ask them. I'm reasonably sure they would welcome the help, especially with 8.3 removal and /usr/lib transition.
RLH - Will do...
Superlinux Sunday, April 29 2012: Well in Debian GNU/Linux (squeeze) you can have both TCL 8.4 and 8.5. and the default stays on 8.4 . Tcl 8.4 has not the widget ttk::combobox ; whereas, 8.5 has it. Therefore to make 8.5 the default we submit the following commands as root:
#For tclsh update-alternatives --set tclsh /usr/bin/tclsh8.5 #And for wish: update-alternatives --set wish /usr/bin/wish8.5
You can list the alternatives this way:
#for tclsh. one of the possible alternatives /usr/bin/tclsh8.5 : update-alternatives --list tclsh #and for wish .one of the possible alternatives /usr/bin/wish8.5 : update-alternatives --set wish /usr/bin/wish8.5
aspect Sunday April 29 2012: It's also worth noting that 8.6 is currently available in the experimental repositories. Try something like:
echo deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian experimental main contrib non-free > /etc/apt-sources.list.d/experimental.list echo 'Package * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 700' > /etc/apt/preferences.d/pin-stable aptitude update aptitude install tcl8.6 tk8.6
Edit the above to suit your local mirror and pin to whichever flavour you prefer to track so you don't end up installing experimental packages that might break your system!