Unable to instal Tk

twv has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Being somewhat unclear just what the protocol might be in these waters, I post this as a new query instead of some sort of follow-up to a previous post

Having successfully installed Strawberry perl, upon advice I attempted to install Tk via 'cpan Tk'. this resulted in some lines of gibberish seemingly indicating that things were going well until...

Updating database file ...
Done!Warning: Cannot install Tk, don't know what it is.
Try the command

i \tk\

to find matching identifiers.

I have no idea just what 'i\tk\' is supposed to do but, on my tackle, it's not recognized as a legitimate command.

Upon other advice I downloaded what appears to be Tk from bribes.com which gave me a tar file with over 2200 files in it. I have no idea just what I should do with this.

I tried some other recommendations, none of which worked. So here I sit, in need of Tk or a reasonable facsimile thereof and finding it thus far beyond my admittedly rather tenuous grasp. Please help.

Understand that anything smelling of systems programming is to me what a cross is to a vampire. I've always had a staff to deal with those sorts of things, so be gentle.

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Re: Unable to instal Tk by GrandFather (Saint) on Aug 08, 2015 at 04:39 UTC
Odd! I installed Tk using cpan on Windows 8.1 against a 64 bit build of Perl 5.20.2 a few days ago without any trouble. Note that case is important for the module name: Tk. At a 'cmd' command prompt I entered: `cpan Tk` A lot of stuff got built but no further interaction was required. Can you run the module install again and report the output? Premature optimization is the root of all job security	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Unable to instal Tk by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 08, 2015 at 05:39 UTC
To install via ppm: ppm install http://www.sisyphusion.tk/ppm/Tk.ppd --force (AFAICT, the bribes repo is for 32-bit perl builds only.) Tk should also install on Strawberry Perl using 'cpan'. Whenever I install via cpan, I specify the '-i' switch: cpan -i Tk I don't know whether the '-i' switch is (or even ought to be) necessary. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^2: Unable to instal Tk by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 08, 2015 at 08:23 UTC
(AFAICT, the bribes repo is for 32-bit perl builds only.) Ahem. See Packages for 64-bit Perl. With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday' Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". I knew I was on the right track :) In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. I'm with torvalds on this Agile (and TDD) debunked I told'em LLVM was the way to go. But did they listen!	[reply]
Re^3: Unable to instal Tk by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 08, 2015 at 12:56 UTC
Ahem Aaah, thanks !! I hadn't caught up to the fact that there's now a 64-bit bribes repo. The only bribes repo I had a link to was http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppmdir.html, and that is exclusively 32-bit. But, yes, http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm64dir.html provides ppm packages for exclusively 64-bit modules, including Tk for perl versions 5.10.x to 5.20.x. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re: Unable to instal Tk by soonix (Chancellor) on Aug 08, 2015 at 06:53 UTC
i \tk\ I bet the slashes are the other way 'round. Most probably you misspelled `Tk` as `tk`. The correct spelling is uppercase 'T', lowercase 'k'.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Unable to instal Tk (because I tried to install tk) by Anonymous Monk on Aug 08, 2015 at 06:49 UTC
cpan Tk will work but cpan tk won't -- you should run cpan Tk like copy/paste if you can't type a capital T	[reply]
Re^2: Unable to instal Tk (because I tried to install tk) by twv (Novice) on Aug 08, 2015 at 14:27 UTC
To paraphrase some character or another from 'The Godfather': "Do not insult someone whose capabilities are unknown to you." And, yes, that was my error. Since retiring from the big iron some years back, case has meant little in the world in which I find myself and I'm in the habit of ignoring it. Just so you know; 'cpan Tk' worked just fine.	[reply]