Tangentally, just a bit ago I tried installing Perl/Tkx via CPAN on my Ubuntu Karmic Koala box at home. No luck. It failed.

Went into the Synaptic utility there and found both Tcl and it's Tk were installed by default, being basic to Ubuntu...since I certainly did not seek them myself.

The thing is, old Perl/Tk worked just fine on both systems. And that is the main reason I have always really, really liked Perl. It would sometimes take a little bit of trial and error, but I could always make the scripts I wrote...the exact same script...work on every OS that I used. The number of hoops I had to jump through to make that happen were rather few. Only a one fairly harrowing instance leaps immediately to mind...the issue with fork. But I got around even that with only a very few extra lines.

But in all those apps which I have supplied a Tk GUI, that part alone accounts for a great many lines of code. If I have to split that into different versions...what a bother it would be. Maybe too much of a bother to even bother (pun intended).

So...do I misapprehend? Is Tkx not supposed to install also on Linux, et al? Or should I be looking for something amiss on my Karmic Koala box?