[tex-live] tlmgr gui fails in Mate Desktop on Scientic Linux 7, perl 5.16.3

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 08:24:10AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, George N. White III wrote:
> > $ tlmgr gui
> > 32ba1f8 is not a hash at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Tk/MainWindow.pm line
> > 53.
> 
> Is line 53 that one:
> 
>    my $top = eval { bless Create($package->CreateArgs(\%args)), $package };
> 
> If yes, than this is surprising, and I would say perl/tk needs
> a rebuild on that platform.
> 
> I don't know what to do, we don't select any special font, but use
> the default that is provided, so if this is really a font issue,
> then it is a problem of your distribution :-(

Fonts may also be defined in ~/.Xresources.

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Siep Kroonenberg