Re^2: Where is Perl/Tk? bribes.org is offline?

[slugger415]

in reply to Re: Where is Perl/Tk? bribes.org is offline?
in thread Where is Perl/Tk? bribes.org is offline?

I don't believe Tk is on CPAN any longer.

[blue_cowdawg]

I don't believe Tk is on CPAN any longer.

It isn't?

[slugger415]

Curious. I wonder why I'm getting this message then, when running 'cpan Tk':

Going to read 'C:\Perl64\cpan\Metadata'
  Database was generated on Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:06:54 GMT
Warning: Cannot install tk, don't know what it is.
Try the command

    i /tk/

to find objects with matching identifiers.
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9721)

Is there an easy way a Windows user could install this package? Pardon my ignorance but I'm not up on running make builds on Windows (7).

thanks!

Hmm, never mind, might have been an uppercase (read: user) error.

But am now getting this:

Writing Makefile for Tk
'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
  SREZIC/Tk-804.030.tar.gz
  nmake -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

[blue_cowdawg]

Something must be up with your environment. Here's what I get:

$ cpan

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.960001)
Enter 'h' for help.

cpan[1]> install Tk
Going to read '/home/pberghold/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:41:03 GMT
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.belfry.net/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read '/home/pberghold/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz'
......................................................................
+......DONE
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.belfry.net/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Going to read '/home/pberghold/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.detail
+s.txt.gz'
  Database was generated on Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:29:02 GMT
..............
 
..............................................................DONE
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.belfry.net/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Going to read '/home/pberghold/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
+'
......................................................................
+......DONE
Going to write /home/pberghold/.cpan/Metadata
Tk is up to date (804.030).

cpan[2]> 

Granted, mine's already installed.

[Anonymous Monk]

I don't believe Tk is on CPAN any longer.

CPAN is forever :) Well, backpan is forever

Did you try it?

Go ahead and try it; feel silly?

[slugger415]

sorry I don't know what to do with that site. And I do feel a little silly, yes.

[Anonymous Monk]

Try  cpan Tk   copy/paste, do not retype, copy/paste

[jandrew]

If you are running Activestate perl your Tk build from CPAN won't go as well as if you are running Strawberry perl.

Check out the Tutorial from holli regarding ppm modules and repositories. There are a number of useful Activestate style workarounds there. You will also need to know what version of make your system has. Type the following into a command prompt.

perl -V:make