Error when trying to launch Git GUI and gitk, incorrect version of tcl and tk

RockyPurple · August 17, 2025, 9:18am

Hello,

Requirements:

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OpenMandriva Lx version:

OpenMandriva Lx release 25.06 (ROME) Rolling for x86_64

Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):
KDE

Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):
I used dnf to install git and the extras, but when I try to run git gui it shows the below error message. Similarly when I try to run gitk I also get a message about the versions. I checked and I saw that I have both packages tcl and tk installed, I get the following message in the terminal:

Last metadata expiration check: 14:08:36 ago on Sat Aug 16 21:02:49 2025.
Package tcl-9.0.1-1.x86_64 is already installed.
Package tk-9.0.1-1.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

I was wondering if there’d be any way to solve this somehow. Many thanks in advance

Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):

Error message for git gui:
version conflict for package “Tcl”: have 9.0.1, need 8.5

Error message for gitk:
Sorry, gitk cannot run with this version of Tcl/Tk. Gitk requires at least Tcl/Tk 8.4.

rugyada · August 17, 2025, 9:22am

@RockyPurple
welcome1

Now you can

RockyPurple · August 17, 2025, 9:41am

Thank you!

zeroability · August 17, 2025, 6:10pm

It appears to be fixed in Cooker, so it will be part of the UM:

github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/git

gitk_tcl9_fix.patch

983bc2253

diff -up git-2.50.1/gitk-git/gitk.2~ git-2.50.1/gitk-git/gitk
--- git-2.50.1/gitk-git/gitk.2~	2025-06-16 07:11:33.000000000 +0200
+++ git-2.50.1/gitk-git/gitk	2025-07-10 15:55:26.837455765 +0200
@@ -7,7 +7,35 @@ exec wish "$0" -- "$@"
 # and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence,
 # either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
 
-package require Tk
+if {[catch {package require Tcl 8.6-} err]} {
+    catch {wm withdraw .}
+    tk_messageBox \
+        -icon error \
+        -type ok \
+        -title "gitk: fatal error" \
+        -message $err
+    exit 1
+}
+
+######################################################################
+## Enable Tcl8 profile in Tcl9, allowing consumption of data that has

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system · September 16, 2025, 6:10pm

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