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Quick installation of tcl:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: tcl
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install tcl
Package Details | |
| Package: | tcl |
| Version: | 8.5.0-2 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | |
| Description: | The Tool Command Language (default version) - run-time files Tcl is a powerful, easy to use, embeddable, cross-platform interpreted scripting language. . This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian's default Tcl version (currently 8.5). |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | interpreters |
How to install tcl on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If tcl is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L tcl' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L tcl Package `tcl' is not installed. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing tcl:
After system update use the following command to install tcl:
sudo apt-get install tcl
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove tcl from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the tcl from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the tcl following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove tcl
Following command is used to remove the tcl package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove tcl
This will remove tcl and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing tcl with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge tcl
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove tcl
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with tcl package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
