How to Install and Uninstall tk8.4 Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: March 15,2025

1. Install "tk8.4" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install tk8.4 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "tk8.4" package

Learn how to uninstall tk8.4 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                tk8.4
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the tk8.4 package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: tk8.4
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Installed-Size: 39
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Tcl/Tk Packagers
Architecture: amd64
Version: 8.4.20-8
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libtcl8.4 (>= 8.4.9), libtk8.4 (>= 8.4.9)
Recommends: xterm | x-terminal-emulator
Conflicts: libtk-img (<< 1.2.5), tk40 (<= 4.0p3-2)
Filename: pool/universe/t/tk8.4/tk8.4_8.4.20-8_amd64.deb
Size: 11490
MD5sum: b1dca3f5a34040bc8a99ead5aa895abb
SHA1: f6398f0035565baef3a631aea99b99cea026265a
SHA256: 6b1b40e9e3b828373fb9d79689bfc34261c359a95c7a71081cbf861e8265dbd7
Description-en: Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 - windowing shell
Tk is a cross-platform graphical toolkit which provides the Motif
look-and-feel and is implemented using the Tcl scripting language.
This package contains the windowing Tcl/Tk shell (wish).
Description-md5: d3c72c9b1cb46af3aaae2ce2e2c7923b
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.tcl.tk/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu