How To Install tclx on Fedora 34

tclx is Extensions for Tcl and Tk Extensions for Tcl and Tk

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tclx on Fedora 34.

What is tclx

Extended Tcl (TclX) is a set of extensions to the Tcl programming language. Extended Tcl is oriented towards system programming tasks and large application development. TclX provides additional interfaces to the operating system, and adds many new programming constructs, text manipulation and debugging tools. tclx 8.4.0 37.fc34 x86_64 151 k tclx-8.4.0-37.fc34.src.rpm fedora Extensions for Tcl and Tk http BSD Extended Tcl (TclX) is a set of extensions to the Tcl programming language. Extended Tcl is oriented towards system programming tasks and large application development. TclX provides additional interfaces to the operating system, and adds many new programming constructs, text manipulation and debugging tools.

We can use yum or dnf to install tclx on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tclx.

Install tclx on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install tclx using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tclx

Install tclx on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install tclx using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tclx

How To Uninstall tclx on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the tclx package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove tclx

tclx Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/ld.so.conf.d/tclx-i386.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/b9377043005512b1c2caaa7e99303948b97fe3
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/arrayprocs.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/autoload.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/buildhelp.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/compat.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/convlib.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/edprocs.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/events.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/fmath.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/forfile.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/globrecur.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/help.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/libtclx8.4.so
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/pkgIndex.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/profrep.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/pushd.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/setfuncs.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/showproc.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/stringfile.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/tcllib.tcl
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/tclx.tcl
/usr/share/doc/tclx
/usr/share/doc/tclx/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/tclx/README
/usr/share/man/man3/ObjCmdWrite.3.gz
/usr/share/man/mann/TclX.n.gz
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/tclx-x86_64.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd/6689ec6df803aeabe412a4e7611ce9753791a0
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/arrayprocs.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/autoload.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/buildhelp.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/compat.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/convlib.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/edprocs.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/events.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/fmath.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/forfile.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/globrecur.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/help.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/libtclx8.4.so
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/pkgIndex.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/profrep.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/pushd.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/setfuncs.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/showproc.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/stringfile.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/tcllib.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclx8.4/tclx.tcl
/usr/share/doc/tclx
/usr/share/doc/tclx/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/tclx/README
/usr/share/man/man3/ObjCmdWrite.3.gz
/usr/share/man/mann/TclX.n.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tclx on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.