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Having problems getting disko to run because it can't find a font? Of course you are. It's actually a bug/feature in debian's perl/Tk installation. Here's how to fix it.

Others have had the same problem. This thread describes it as well as a fix. Basically, perl needs to be patched and rebuilt.

You will need to download this patch:

• 23_fix_utf8_taint

Log in to the data recorder PC as root.

1. Make sure you have all the dependant packages
   • apt-get install devscripts libdb4.2-dev libgdbm-dev
2. Get the perl source
   • apt-get source perl
3. Remove the default patching,
   • cd perl-5.8.4
   • ./debian/rules unpatch
4. Replace debian/patches/23_fix_utf8_taint with the one you downloaded
   • mv /somewhere/23_fix_utf8_taint debian/patches/23_fix_utf8_taint
5. Patch and rebuild perl
   • debian/rules patch
   • dch -n Test Tk fix
   • dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
6. Re-install perl
   • cd ..
   • dpkg –install *perl*.deb