tcl/tk installed on your system?

exiled · Jr. Member Joined: 24 Nov 2025 Posts: 51 Location: ~/

I do a little tcl/tk scripting and I've noticed
that not all distros install it by default.

Is the tcl shell currently installed on your system (tclsh)?
If not, would you go out of your way to install it.

I like tcl/tk, but maybe I should spend more time with perl and wxwidgets.

Is tcl fading into obscurity? Sad

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Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2025 4:16 am Post subject:

Gentoo64: TCL is tclsh is not. or at least the binary is not in $PATH
arch32: Tcl is not installed
arch64: tcl is not installed
Win7: ther is a tclsh command but it has nothing to do with tcl

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exiled · Jr. Member Joined: 24 Nov 2025 Posts: 51 Location: ~/

Yes, I neglected to omit Gentoo, Arch, LFS, etc... (custom systems)
I was mainly referring to popular mainstream distros,
to include all that are based on mainstream distros.

Does anyone here use tcl?
If so, how often?

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Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2025 4:35 am Post subject:

You mean those prepackaged ones that can never be set up exactly the way you want hand have so many unneeded dependencies it's obscene? pah to those!

Gentoo (or funtoo) if i'vegot the time to spare.

Arch if i don't.

Windows so I can remote into work if needed.

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VHockey86 · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2025 5:03 am Post subject:

It has definitely been trumped by Perl / Python / Ruby / etc from a scripting and programming perspective as far as I can tell. Tk is still part of the standard Python library.

Bash has always been the default shell on any non-solaris machine that I've ever used in the past 6 or so years, and I've never really felt compelled to use anything else.

I've come across a bit of TCL scripting as part of Altera's tools (for simulating, synthesizing, mapping, place and routing digital hardware), but they've started to abandon that in favor of Perl.

To me TCL always seemed like it was stuck somewhere in between being a programming language and being a shell, and didn't accel at either one - but then again I'm pretty biased since I haven't really tried using it much Smile

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melloe · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2025 10:57 am Post subject:

No, but welcome.

IMNSHEO, any OS that requires the command line for everyday use is worthless.

Any OS that don't have the option is useless.

go figure

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Pet3M0ss · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2025 1:18 pm Post subject:

I see that my Slackware has tcl and tclx listed in pkgtool as being installed.

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anticapitalista · Member Joined: 13 Jan 2025 Posts: 185 Location: Greece

antiX has tcl8.4and tk8.4 installed

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exiled · Jr. Member Joined: 24 Nov 2025 Posts: 51 Location: ~/

Thanks for the replies and hope still lingers for tcl

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Germ · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2025 1:07 am Post subject:

tk-8.6-0.b1.2 and tcl-8.6-0.b1.1 on Mandriva 2025.1

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