(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.patchTo 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 130.155.20.5Perl 5.001m is available from one of the CPAN ftp sites in the src/5.0/ directory as file perl5.001m.tar.gz.
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.gzIt 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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