3. Where is it?

Source code

Tk-b11.02 (the latest): you will need Perl 5.002, a recent MakeMaker and the Tk-b11.02 kit. To obtain all of these (as well as several other modules that sophisticated Tk programs now rely on) visit a CPAN ftp site. CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) and what you need to get from it, is discussed in fuller detail in the next question.

(This question remains for historical reasons as well as to discuss things that have not quite made it to CPAN.)

The Tk-b# kits used to be available from

    ftp://ftp.wpi.edu/perl5/          130.215.24.209
[ However, visiting the CPAN sites (discussed in the next question) should provide you with all that you need (including other perl modules).]

Please note that if you will be attempting to build with the old Tk-b9.01 then you will probably also want Nick's document patch to go with that older kit, it is available from:

    http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/~pvhp/ptk/etc/ptkpod-b9.01.patch
To construct Perl 5.002 go to a CPAN site and pick up the full kit (it will have some mysterious name like perl5.002.tar.gz or something).

As of November 1995 Tk-b# (various versions) are being distributed at CPAN ftp sites (see later question in this FAQ) in the authors/id/NI-S/ directory.

Tk-b8: For this older version you must have Perl (5.001m) (not n) and the ptk kit. The Tk-b8 kit is at CPAN sites, as well as from:

USA 
    ftp://ftp.wpi.edu/perl5/Tk-b8.tar.gz              130.215.24.209
    ftp://ftp.perl.com/pub/perl/ext/tk/               199.45.129.30
    http://www.freebsd.org/ports/programming.html (pick up "pTk-b8")
    http://www.metronet.com/perlinfo/perl5/extensions/Tk-b8.tar.gz 
UK
    ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/perl/Tk-b8.tar.gz          163.1.2.4
Germany
    ftp://franz.ww.tu-berlin.de/pub/authors/NI-S/Tk-b8.tar.gz 130.149.200.51
Australia (please be patient and only try during off hours)
    ftp://ftp.syd.dit.csiro.au/pub/perl5/ftp.wpi.edu  130.155.20.5
Perl 5.001m is available from one of the CPAN ftp sites in the src/5.0/ directory as file perl5.001m.tar.gz.

Binaries

A pre-compiled binary distribution of Perl5.001m with Tk-b8 for Linux is available from:
Australia (please be patient and only try during off hours)
    ftp://syd.dit.csiro.au/pub/perl5/local/perl5.001m+Tk-b8-Linux-ELF.tar.gz
It unpacks into /usr/local. You need to have ELF running and to have the ELF X11 libraries (please be patient and only try during off hours).

Binaries for the Perl 5 & Tk-b6 are available for a number of UNIX platforms courtesy of Thomas Schlagel and Alan Stange of Brookhaven Lab at:

USA
    http://pubweb.bnl.gov/~ptk/
Thomas and Alan have recently (winter 1995-1996) announced that they will update the Tk module version number of the many binaries they distribute.

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