How to run TCL/TK script in April?

[AustinGreen]

Just installed Quirky April and trying to run TCL/TK script.
Plain TCL works OK, but TK gives this error:

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invalid command name "errorInfo"

My test script contains:

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#!/usr/bin/tclsh
grid [ttk::button .mybutton -text "Hello there, World."]

[WillM]

Hi AustinGreen,

From reading through the man pages, you need to tell your script that it requires Tk, so you script should look like this.

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#!/usr/bin/tclsh

package require Tk

grid [ttk::button .mybutton -text "Hello there, World."] 

[AustinGreen]

Thanks WillM for not saying just 'RTFM'

I'm trying to learn TCL/TK and I got the example from a tutorial. It ran fine on other platforms (both Linux and Windows) so assumed - wrongly - that it was a Puppy problem. More a config difference by the looks; the other platforms must have built-in loading of TK for all TCL scripts.

[L18L]

Hi AustinGreen,

can you give an example of

Plain TCL works OK

?

Does your TK continue giving

invalid command name "errorInfo"

after following WillM's hint?

Which version of Quirky April are you running?

Just curious...

EDIT
... because this is what my tclsh does:

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 # tclsh
invalid command name "errorInfo"
Welcome to Jim version 0.70, Copyright (c) 2005-8 Salvatore Sanfilippo
. 
. 

[AustinGreen]

By 'plain TCL works OK' I mean that a script containing

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puts "hello world"

works without any error messages.

I should have done more testing before my earlier posts!
Running 'tclsh' does indeed give that error message on start-up.
It does it on Precise Puppy as well as Quirky.

The inclusion of 'package require Tk' did not fix the problem, in fact any mention of 'package' immediately brings forth that same error message.

On Precise Puppy I was able to make it all work by installing tk_8.5.1 which provides the 'wish' command. Using that instead of tclsh makes everything behave properly. Unfortunately on Quirky that package is not available. Tried to configure the package manager, but I can't fathom out how to add repositories, and/or I don't know which repos to add. So this has become an entirely new question - perhaps I should repost?

[AustinGreen]

In case anyone else is having similar troubles, after some experimentation I have solved it as described below. This worked for Quirky 7 April, the latest version I believe.

Removed package jimtcl.
Downloaded packages from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/
... from tcl8.6/, libtcl8.6_8.6.4+dfsg-2ubuntu1_i386.deb and tcl8.6_8.6.4+dfsg-2ubuntu1_i386.deb,
... from tk8.6/, libtk8.6_8.6.4+dfsg-2ubuntu1_i386.deb and tk8.6_8.6.4+dfsg-2ubuntu1_i386.deb.
Installed the packages by clicking on the .deb files.

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# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
# ln -s /usr/bin/tclsh8.6 /usr/bin/tclsh
# ln -s /usr/bin/wish8.6 /usr/bin/wish

Edited ~/.bashrc to include the above command that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Now commands 'tclsh' and 'wish' start without error, and run TCL scripts successfully.