Version 1 of teacup install

Updated 2008-02-13 19:04:27 by LV

This teacup subcommand fetches and installs a package for you.

It is important to note that there is a syntactical distinction between installing a package (aka an extension), and an application.

For example:

$ teacup install sqlite3

is what you would type to install a package.

$ teacup install tkcon -is application

is what you would type to install an application like tkcon.

SPECIAL NOTE

If you are wanting to use teacup to install tcllib, it too takes the special syntax:

$ teacup install tcllib -is profile

This is because tcllib is NOT a package - it is a collection of packages.

If you are wanting to install the batteries included set of packages that came with ActiveTcl 8.4 (and to some degree, earlier), then you would use

$ teacup install ActiveState::ActiveTcl -is profile

Now, some people may find they need to run teacup timeout to lengthen the amount of time teacup waits for completion. And others may need to look into teacup's -proxy argument.