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You appear to be missing some core modules. Perhaps you just didn't install them?

Judging from your conversations in the Chatterbox, you appear to have installed Perl on Debian, or rather, it came with Debian:

Perl 5.10.0 was installed as part of the Debian distribution.

It looks to me like you have to install the core modules separately.

I hate smartass Linux distributions.

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Re^6: Using Tcl::Tk Module with Tcl/Tk 8.5
by phillc (Novice) on May 28, 2008 at 20:53 UTC
    Perl-Modules are required by package "perl".

    As I have the perl package installed at distribution install, I also have the perl-modules package installed at the same time.

    I can't really see anything else that I need to install......

    Maybe I'll have to try Perl/GTK+ or wxPerl instead, which is a shame as PerlTK (or specicially native Tk) grid layout method really gels with me. I just can't live with the Motif-esque look of Tcl/Tk 8.4 widgets.

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      No matter what you think is installed, the error message clearly indicates that at least some core modules are not installed. So the problem is not with Perl/Tk. You'll have similar problems no matter whichever larger module you'll try to use.

      So, please, focus in this problem first: make sure you have the necessary core modules. After that, you can do whatever you please.

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        OK, perhaps I wasn't clear in my earlier response.

        According to Synaptic the package called "perl-modules" and described as "Architecture independent Perl modules. These modules are part of Perl and required if the `perl' package is installed." is installed. It was installed when the OS was installed, as I have not added it manually. Packages "perl" and "perl-base" are also installed.

        So, I am still not sure what to do. Do you have a suggestion?

        Thanks

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