ds9 crashes when start from command line

[xiaoyue cao]

mypc@pc ~ $ ds9

Error in startup script: can't find package xml
    while executing
"package require xml"
    ("x11" arm line 9)
    invoked from within
"switch $ds9(wm) {
    x11 {
 # set to absolute path so that if -cd command is used,
 # so we can still find our files
 set ds9(root) [file normalize [..."
    (file "/usr/share/saods9/library/ds9.tcl" line 197)

release:
Description: Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya (based on ubuntu 16.06 LTS)
Release: 18.2

version:
saods9:
  Installed: 7.4+repack-1
  Candidate: 7.4+repack-1
  Version table:
 *** 7.4+repack-1 500
        500 http://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/ubuntu xenial/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[AlwaysTired (alwaystired)]

This happens to me too with Ubuntu 18.04.1 and saods9 7.5+repack1-2, although previously it worked with no special problems.
When I run it with root permissions ("sudo ds9"), it works.

[AlwaysTired (alwaystired)]

Ok, bug #1737112 is related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/saods9/+bug/1737112
I installed miniconda3 a few days ago. When I removed it from the path (commented export PATH="/usr/local/miniconda3/bin:$PATH" in my ~/.bashrc file), I could start ds9 normally (the reason it worked with sudo permissions is probably because it didn't have miniconda3 in the path).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package saods9 - 8.0.1+repack-2

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saods9 (8.0.1+repack-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Provide full path to wish (Closes: #912375) (LP: #1782692, #1737112)

 -- Ole Streicher <email address hidden> Sun, 06 Jan 2019 19:16:24 +0100

[Rebecca Ringuette (rringuette)]

The bugged version of ds9 is still installed on ubuntu with the apt-get command. The software I'm trying to run that uses ds9 will not acknowledge ds9 if it is installed from source because of the different resulting structures in the different installation types. Can this new version of ds9 be propagated to the apt-get update list? Thanks.