Sguil client error with Ubuntu 10.04

After running Ubuntu 10.04 at home for a couple of weeks I decided to go ahead and upgrade my work system. Everything went smooth until I went to launch the Sguil client.

$ ./sguil.tk
ERROR: Cannot fine the Iwidgets extension.
The iwidgets package is part of the incr tcl extension and is
available as a port/package most systems.
See http://www.tcltk.com/iwidgets/ for more info.

Iwidgets was definitely installed so I asked in #snort-gui and qru suggested the following command, which provided some direction:

$ tclsh
% package require Iwidgets
version conflict for package "Tcl": have 8.4, need 8.5

Sguil doesn't support Tcl8.5 so we definitely want to stick with Tcl8.4. This seems to imply we have the "wrong" version of Iwidgets however that's not quite true. Turns out that with Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 we have the "wrong" versions of itcl and itk. Ubuntu Lucid includes the following versions of itcl and itk which require Tcl8.5 and Tk8.5:

itcl3_3.4~b1-2
itk3_3.3-2

The quick and dirty solution is to remove these new versions and grab the .debs from Ubuntu Hardy.

$ sudo apt-get remove tcl8.5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
java-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
itcl3 itk3 iwidgets4 tcl8.5 tk8.5
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
After this operation, 10.0MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 187845 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing iwidgets4 ...
dpkg: warning: while removing iwidgets4, directory '/usr/share/tcltk/iwidgets4.0.1' not empty so not removed.
Removing itk3 ...
Removing itcl3 ...
Removing tk8.5 ...
Removing tcl8.5 ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...

Now grab the .debs for Ubuntu Hardy and install:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/itk3
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/itcl3

$ sudo dpkg -i itcl3_3.2.1-3.1_amd64.deb

$ sudo dpkg -i itk3_3.2.1-3.1_amd64.deb

Last but not least we need to re-install Iwidgets:

$ sudo apt-get install iwidgets4

That's it, you should once again be able to launch the Sguil client.