Make gitk look better by updating tk

I thought I’ve already done this to all of my machines but it seems that I haven’t done it on this laptop I’m using right now.

Anyway, I use gitk for my graphical git browsing because I’m too lazy to download other graphical packages. Unfortunately, gitk looks like this:

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The solution to this is to install tk8.5 and tell gitk to use it instead of 8.4. From SU:

To fix this the Debian (Ubuntu) way:

$ sudo apt-get install tk8.5
$ sudo update-alternatives --config wish

And then pick the wish8.5 alternative.

Here’s the result: