'''The latest Tcl/Tk on Debian, the easy way.''' Step One: Make an /etc/apt/preferences file that looks something like this: ====== Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 650 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600 ====== Step Two: Add the sid repos, something like this: ====== echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable main non-free contrib" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sid.list ====== Step Three: ====== apt update ====== Step Four: Install all your tcl goodies from Sid ====== apt -t unstable install -y tcl8.6 tk8.6 tcl-expect tcllib tklib tkcon tcl-sugar ====== Not everything will necessarily be installed from Sid, but if there is a new release of anything, you will get it (aka 8.6.8 circa 1/2017). The preferences file ensures that you don't install anything from Sid that you do not desire. '''Unofficial repositories''' 2. Debian-cosy is a repository of unofficial debian packages, mostly made by Victor Wagner and Artem Chuprina 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 tcl Contains ... 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. %|Library|Package|Description|% &| [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] | '''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 |& &| [tkdnd] | '''tkdnd''' | adds native drag & drop capabilities to the Tk toolkit |& ... more packages to follow ... ---- ''[escargo] 25 Oct 2007'' - Note this Debian news: [http://lwn.net/Articles/254736/] ''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.'') * http://lwn.net/Articles/269250/ * http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianTclTk/UsrLibTransition * http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianTclTk/TclTk83Removal ''[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! <> Distribution | Linux