Dear Gustaf,
thank you very much for the qwick answer. Here is the version numbers:
Version Numbers of XOTcl and Related Packages
Database: PostgreSQL 9.5.3 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Ubuntu 5.3.1-14ubuntu2) 5.3.1 20160413, 64-bit
Server:    4.99.11 (NaviServer)
Tcl:       8.5.19
XOTcl:     2.0.0
Tdom:      0.8.3
libthread: /usr/local/ns/lib/thread2.7.2/libthread2.7.2.so
Tcllib:    /usr/local/ns/lib/tcllib1.18
acs-kernel:            2013-09-08, 5.10.0d1
xotcl-core:            2015-02-11, 0.138
xowiki:                2015-05-03, 5.9.0d3
xowf:                  2011-05-16, 0.35
Apparently the installation (via repository) went well, but now looking at the error log (I should have done before posting) I found several warnings and one error:
^[[0;32m[29/Jun/2016:09:24:26][1981.7f030fefe700][-conn:oacs-HEAD:1-] ^[[0m^[[1;31mError: Error sourcing /var/lib/ns/oacs-HEAD/packages/xowf/tcl/xowf-form-field-procs.\
tcl:
wrong # args: should be "extend_slot arg" during '::xowiki::formfield::workflow_definition.extend_slot'
    ::xotcl::Class ::xotcl::Class->create
    invoked from within
"::xotcl::Class create workflow_definition -superclass textarea -parameter {
    {rows 20}
    {cols 80}
    {dpi 120}
  } -extend_slot validator workf..."
    ("uplevel" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"uplevel [list [self] create {*}$args]"
    (procedure "unknown" line 3)
    ::xotcl::Class ::xotcl::Class->unknown
    invoked from within
"Class workflow_definition -superclass textarea -parameter {
    {rows 20}
    {cols 80}
    {dpi 120}
  } -extend_slot validator workflow"
    (in namespace eval "::xowiki::formfield" script line 8)
    invoked from within
"namespace eval ::xowiki::formfield {
  ###########################################################
  #
  # ::xowiki::formfield::workflow_definition
  ..."
    (file "/var/lib/ns/oacs-HEAD/packages/xowf/tcl/xowf-form-field-procs.tcl" line 10)
I'm just experimenting and so I could could simply restart with OpenACS 5.9.