Installing tk after the fact?

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Is it even possible to install tk support after the fact for ruby 1.8?

Most of the boxes at work are running CentOS (RHEL clone), and I was
going to write some small frontends in ruby/tk this morning. Lo and
behold, there isn’t any ruby/tk library on here!

Ruby, Tcl & TK are both installed from the distro supplied rpms. I’ve
done some searches for how to install ruby/tk, but so far all I’ve
found were some notes stating to rebuild ruby with it.

Isn’t there any better way?

Thanks,
Kyle

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My Ubuntu’s ruby, too, didn’t come installed with ruby-tk. I used my
package manager to install it. Your package manager is ‘yum’, I think.
Have you tried somethng along of ‘yum install ruby-tk’ ?

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“yum list available ruby*”
did indeed show ruby-tcltk.i386

I’m kindof surprised here, as the centos installer didn’t show or make
that available at all.

Hu.

Thanks a lot!

Although it does make me wonder, if you can add this after the fact
with a package, shouldn’t there be instructions somewhere to build it
on your own after the fact?

–Kyle