Can't install ape plasmid editor

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First of all, I am new user. So, I use Ai chatbot to do anything what i want to do but this installation of ape plasmid editor is so difficult for me or it might not work on fedora. Please let me know how to install it .

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On ApE- A plasmid Editor, there is a download link for Linux that will provide you with a zip file. In that zip file, there is a README file. Did you read it?

Quote:
“ApE has a single dependency, the Tcl/Tk interpreter that must be installed.
See instructions for installing Tcl/Tk on linux:
TkDocs Tutorial - Installing Tk”

See also tk - Fedora Packages and tcl - Fedora Packages. To install run sudo dnf install tk tcl.

README file

ApE has a single dependency, the Tcl/Tk interpreter that must be installed.
See instructions for installing Tcl/Tk on linux:
TkDocs Tutorial - Installing Tk

In short, you should be able to do:
apt install tk8.6

After installing Tcl/Tk, cd to the ApE Linux folder that you downloaded, then run the ApE.tcl script with the Wish interpreter:
/usr/bin/wish8.6 ApE.tcl

OR
make the ApE.tcl script executable:
chmod +x ApE.tcl

then run the script directly:
ApE.tcl

If you’d like to make a desktop icon for ApE, there is a .desktop file in the Acessory Files directory.
To use that file do three things:

  1. make the ApE.tcl script executable (as above):
    chmod +x ApE.tcl

  2. Edit ApE.desktop to change ~/bin/ApE to the location that you are installing ApE (you have to edit two lines at the end).

  3. copy ApE.desktop to
    ~/.local/share/applications/ApE.desktop
    OR
    /usr/share/applications/ApE.desktop

If you’d like to associate add MIME types associated with ApE, there is an xml file, ape-mime-type.xml in the Acessory Files directory.
To use that file do three things:

  1. Edit the xml file to have the glob pattern for the files you want to assocate.

  2. Move or copy the xml file to ~/local/share/mime/packages/ for a sinle user or /usr/share/mime/packages for system-wide use

  3. Call update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime for a sinle user or
    update-mime-database from the system account for system-wide use.

for more detailed instructions see: Modifying MIME types

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First this, then place the binary in ~/.local/bin, or create a .desktop entry and launch the program with the Exec=/path/to/binary.

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I just run ape by manual click as run the program. It is not working on terminal . Thank you so much
bro.