multixterm doesn't work, expectk missing and cannot be installed

Bug #300300 reported by Ladislav Dobias
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expect-tcl8.3 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: expect-tcl8.3-dev

I have Ubuntu 8.04.1.

I would like to run multixterm.

I find it in expect-tcl8.3-dev package, installed it. But is says:

$ /usr/share/doc/expect-tcl8.3-dev/examples/multixterm
exec: 3: expectk: not found

There is some mess in packages and dependencies.
expect-tcl8.3-dev depends on expect-tcl8.3
and expect-tcl8.3 suggest expectk-tcl8.3, which is not available.

There is expectk, but it cannot be installed, as depends on expect, which is in conflict with expect-tcl8.3.

I have 2 different suggestions:
1) either supply missing package expectk-tcl8.3
2) or include multixterm in some new expect-dev package (or other)

Thanks.
Lada

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 20 13:03:12 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: expect-tcl8.3-dev 5.43.0-5.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: expect-tcl8.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
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