http://jfontain.free.fr/tclperl.htm Of related interest are "[Ways to execute Perl programs from Tcl]". --- Unfortunalely No debian package for this exist. No make or configure , direct "cc" and it runs into lot of integration issues. Very poor or no packaging . People who are enthusiastic to try out this are warned that all these plumbing work needs to be done to install it on debian. problems encountered: First it could not find tcl.h , then I installed tcl-dev. Now it says -lperl not found. There is no make or configure , direct cc and it gets into these problems. Instructions for installing it on Debian/testing: Install tcl-dev. Add -I/usr/include/tcl to cc arguments Install libperl-dev. --vkv