Installing WordNet on Linux (Ubuntu trusty)

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I am trying to install WordNet-3.0 on Ubuntu trusty. When I ran configure script, I got: ``` checking for Tcl configuration... configure: WARNING: Can't find Tcl configuration definitions ``` It's a warning, but still, configuration stopped without creating makefiles. So I downloaded and installed tcl8.6.1, then ran the configure script again, but I got: ``` checking for Tcl configuration... found /usr/local/lib/tclConfig.sh checking for Tk configuration... configure: WARNING: Can't find Tk configuration definitions ``` So I downloaded and installed tk8.6.1, then ran the configure script again, but the warning message persisted. I found `tkConfig.sh` in `~/Downloads/tk8.6.1/unix/`, so I copied it to /usr/local/lib, ran the script again, but I got: ``` checking for Tcl configuration... found /usr/local/lib/tclConfig.sh checking for Tk configuration... found /usr/local/lib/tkConfig.sh checking for existence of /usr/local/lib/tclConfig.sh... loading checking for existence of /usr/local/l…

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Was there a reason you tried to install tcl/tk from source? My suggestion would be to delete the manually installed tk and tcl packages (hunt under `/usr/local/bin`, `/usr/local/lib` and `/usr/local/include`), then use the Ubuntu package manager to install "tk": http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/tk

"tk" has a dependency on "tcl", so it will install that automatically for you, as well as any other dependencies you need.

Then if that still fails, one idea is to install "tk-dev" (which has a dependency on tcl-dev). The "-dev" versions of packages contain all the headers, makefiles, etc, etc.

Installing WordNet on Linux (Ubuntu trusty)

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