Alternatively, you can also get smtm from a Debian mirror via the main Debian page for the smtm package. Or, with apt properly set up, all it takes under Debian is to issue the apt-get install smtm command and you're done as packages exist for perl-tk, libwww-perl, smtm and couple of thousand other things ....
For the Red Hat distribution of Linux, you need to compile perl-tk youself as this distribution does not provide an .rpm package. You can get the required sources for at the CPAN page if you follow the link at the top. Similarly, you can find libwww-perl. However, the RPMfindarchive has pages for libwww-perl and perl-tk which might alleviate the need for recompilation. It appears that one also needs perl-HTML-Parser-2.22-2 and perl-URI-1.02-2, both of which are also at rpmfind.
SuSE users are required to compile both libraries themselves. If someone wants to make a package available, I'd be glad to provide diskspace for it.
Lastly, for those running the Perl implementation from ActiveState for on one of the systems from the company with the big legal department, you need to install the Date::Manip module. Change into the bin\ directory of your ActiveState installation, lauch ppm and issue the install date-manip command. The modules will then be downloaded and installed. Due to sloppy editing, you may need to delete the superfluous second array @tmp2 on line 2287 of Date/Manip.pm or else a warning will be triggered each and every time. Lastly, timezone information is needed. For this, please set the TZ variable to your timezone.
As of May 2005, Yahoo! provides charts in png format which requires the Tk::PNG module as the standard Tk distribution cannot display png charts. Tk::PNG is included in ActiveState's Perl, available as a package for Debian, reported to be included in Red Hat's Tk package and otherwise available at CRAN.
Another ticker you might want to consider is TclTicker by Tom Poindexter.
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