On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:55 PM, A. Jorge Garcia <calcpage@aol.com> wrote:
Right, the turtle and Tkinter are GUI apps, but the OP said they connect with the -Y parameter for X11 forwarding, so it should open an X11 window on their << machines - this is standard behavior for ssh. And the OP said turtle was not found, not that a screen couldn't be opened. <<
Thanx, Vern, you are exactly correct. My students have run several GUI apps, for example using java, via X11 forwarding in this manner.
I tried sample python turtle code I found on the web and got an import error. I was logged in directly on the server.
So is turtle.py in /usr/lib/Python2.6/lib-tk ? It should be, according to the python2.6 package manifest... if not, maybe reinstalling the package would help. If that fails, downloading the python source tarball and manually putting it there should do the trick, assuming nothing else is missing. (and if IDLE runs, you should be OK, Tkinter-wise). Cheers, Vern
TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CompSci http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009
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