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From: MHD on 8 Dec 2008 11:05
For the record, Neil's solution worked. I went into /usr/local/lib/
tk8.5 and changed the reference from 8.5 to 8.5.5, and it ran just
fine.

Thanks.

On Dec 6, 2:00 am, Neil Madden <n...(a)cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote:
> MHD wrote:
> > I'm fairly new to tcl/tk and found that I had to upgrade to 8.5 on my
> > FreeBSD7 machine to take advantage of some new widgets.
>
> > So I installed the package
> > pkg_add -r tk85
>
> > and ended up with tk 8.5.5.
>
> > No problem, except the interpreter seems to think 8.5 and 8.5.5
> > require different commands, and neither seems to work.  Take this
> > simple program:
>
> > #! /usr/local/bin/tclsh8.5
> > package require Tk
> > grid [ttk::button .b -text "Hello World"]
>
> > Which triggers the error message:
>
> > attempt to provide package Tk 8.5 failed: package Tk 8.5.5 provided
> > instead
> >     ("package ifneeded Tk 8.5" script)
> >     invoked from within
> > "package require Tk "
> >     (file "./test.tcl" line 3)
>
> > Changing line 2 to "package require Tk 8.5" gets the same result.
>
> > OK, let's change line 2 of the file to
>
> > package require Tk 8.5.5
>
> > Well then, I get
>
> > can't find package Tk 8.5.5
> >     while executing
> > "package require Tk 8.5.5 "
> >     (file "./test.tcl" line 3)
>
> > So I don't get it.  The interpreter can't find 8.5.5, unless I tell it
> > I want vanilla 8.5, where all of a sudden 8.5.5 is all it can find!
>
> Looks like a bug in the FreeBSD Tk packaging. That error is produced
> when a package claims to provide version 8.5 (exactly) in it's
> pkgIndex.tcl script, but then the actual package has a "package provide
> Tk 8.5.5". You need to locate the pkgIndex.tcl for Tk and change the
> version number in it to match what is actually provided (i.e. 8.5.5).
>
> -- Neil

From: Don Porter on 8 Dec 2008 11:30
MHD wrote:
> For the record, Neil's solution worked. I went into /usr/local/lib/
> tk8.5 and changed the reference from 8.5 to 8.5.5, and it ran just
> fine.

Please track back who delivered you the broken file, and ask them to
correct their bug.

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