From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...>
Date: 2006-03-26T06:01:44+09:00
Subject: Help with tkHTML (specifically, require 'tkextlib/tkHTML' fails to find package)

(Ruby 1.8.4 on Mandriva2006)

I need some help with tkHTML.  The current problem is that, if I try to follow 
this example (from  
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/667a7e153dabd20f ):

 require 'tk' 
 require 'tkextlib/tkHTML' 
 
.. read a HTML-doc, and set it to the variable 'doc' ... 
 
hv = Tk::HTML_Widget.new.pack 
 hv.parse(doc)

It fails at the step =require 'tkextlib/tkHTML'= with a message: 

RuntimeError: TkPackage can't find package Tkhtml
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/tk/package.rb:86:in `require'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/tkextlib/tkHTML/htmlwidget.rb:15
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/tkextlib/tkHTML.rb:13
        from (irb):2

What I've done (generally):

I may have confused the issue, because I've downloaded and installed both 
ActiveTCL and the standalone ktHTML packages.  I installed the ktHTML package 
first, and tried the example before installing ActiveTCL, but got the same 
result.

At one point, from somewhere I got the hint that I should run the setup.rb 
files, so I found one in /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/tkextlib and another 
in  /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/tkextlib/tkHTML.   They are not executable, so I 
ran them as ruby scripts, i.e. =ruby setup.rb= from the directory containing 
the files.  No improvement.  

Some observations:

Directory /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/tkextlib contains, among other things:

tkHTML/    tkHTML.rb

Directory /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/tkextlib/tkHTML contains:

htmlwidget.rb  setup.rb

Line 13 in /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/tkextlib/tkHTML.rb is:

require 'tkextlib/tkHTML/htmlwidget'

Any hints?

Randy Kramer