ding: 3: exec: wish: not found

[Christian Weiske]

When trying to start "ding", I get an error:

> /usr/bin/ding: 3: exec: wish: not found

I removed ding (with --autoremove) and re-installed it again, but that does not help.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ding 1.8.1-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-72.80-generic 5.4.101
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-72-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Apr 27 08:00:24 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-29 (2705 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ding
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2021-04-25 (1 days ago)

[Christian Weiske (cweiske)]

I had to uninstall tk and reinstall tk to get it working.
Must have had something to do with my upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04 two days ago.

[Roland Rosenfeld (roland)]

The package tk contains only a symlink /usr/bin/wish pointing to /usr/bin/wish8.6 (which is provided by tk8.6 package, while tk depends on tk8.6).
If this mechanism does not work correct on your system or the upgrade fails, this isn't an issue in package ding (which depends on tk) but in tk/tk8.6 packages.
Maybe you should report it there?