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Reputation: 115

Installing tcl/tk under Linux Centos 7 for use with Perl 5 - Missing a step?

Running Perl 5 on Centos 7 and trying to install tcl/tk.

I've installed tk, tk-devel, tcl and tcl-devel using yum. The yum install appears to work fine. In fact, I re-ran the yum commands and saw a "nothing to be done" type of message.

In my perl file, the only code (after a declaration) is either 

use tk;

Or

use Tk;

I'm not sure which is correct. However, either one produces an error when I run the file -

Can't locate tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at ./test.pl line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./test.pl line 4.

If I do a "find" from / searching for tk.pm the file is not found.

After the initial failure I found this on a site, which appears to be an additional step?

to install
tcl-8.5.13-4.el7.x86_64
tcl-devel-8.5.13-4.el7.x86_64

Invoking either one from the Linux command line generates a file not found error.

If I do a "find" from / searching for either file nothing is found.

It seems obvious I am missing something, but have no idea what it night be.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3081

Answers (1)

ThisSuitIsBlackNot
ThisSuitIsBlackNot

Reputation: 24063

The Perl module is Tk.pm. RPMs for Perl modules generally follow the pattern:

Module      RPM
------      ---
Foo::Bar    perl-Foo-Bar

So run:

yum install perl-Tk

and in your script, do:

use Tk;

Upvotes: 4

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