Problems Finding and installing Tkinter

[Fredrik Lundh]

Jim Cochrane <jtc at dimensional.com> wrote:
>     import _tkinter # If this fails your Python is not configured for Tk
> 
> ImportError: /usr/X11R6/lib/libtk8.0.so: undefined symbol: panic
> 
> So it's not finding a symbol named "panic".  I have no idea what library
> this should be in.

libtcl8.0.so, most likely:

    $ nm libtk8.0.so | grep panic
             U panic
    $ nm libtcl8.0.so | grep panic
    0000afac T panic
    0005af58 D panicProc

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