1.5.2 NT install question(s)

Kiss, Arpad AKiss at GEOMETRIA.hu
Wed Sep 8 04:11:54 EDT 1999


Hi,
Try to set the TK_LIBRARY and TCL_LIBRARY. 
Arpad

Mark Jackson <mjackson at wc.eso.mc.xerox.com> wrote in message
news:<7r3hib$24f$1 at news.wrc.xerox.com>...
> I've done this twice recently and encountered problems both times.
> 
> On a fresh system (never had Python or Tcl/Tk) things (for example,
> PySol) seem to work, but whenever I use Tkinter (specifically, when
> _tkinter is imported) I get a warning box about not being able to find
> tcl80.dll in the specified path.  (tcl80.dll is present, in Program
> Files\Tcl\bin.) What's wrong, and how do I put it right?
> 
> On a system where 1.5.1 (with Tcl/Tk) had previously been installed, I
> carefully uninstalled both before installing 1.5.2.  Here both "import
> _tkinter" and "inport Tkinter" are OK, but Tkinter._test() yields:
> 
>     TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
> 	{} ./lib/tcl8.0 D:/tc18.0/library {D:/Program Files/library}
>     
>     This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
> 
> (init.tcl is present, in Program Files\Tcl\lib\tcl8.0.)  What's wrong,
> and how do I put it right?
> 
> Thanks in advance.  Sorry to be asking such trivial-seeming questions,
> but I found nothing helpful through python.org.  And I haven't dealt
> with the innards of NT enough for its design coherence to become
> manifest (yeah, right).
> 
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