Tkinter on IRIX and Linux

[Junjun Mao]

Thanks, Heiko,

I could run "wish", and it pop up a window. If this suggested an installed
tkinter and tcl, where  was the  "_tkinter" module?

However, I can run "wish" on a machine without Python.
A little confused...

Junjun

Heiko Wundram wrote:

> What you have to do is:
>
> 1. check whether you have Tk installed (by trying to run 'wish' as
> superuser). If that doesn't work (gives file not found), get both Tcl and Tk
> from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894 and compile
> them without threads support enabled! This is important, as Tk crashes often
> under Linux when thread-support is used. Install Tcl and Tk in /usr (by using
> --prefix=/usr), so that you won't have to specify an additional --include-dir
> for Python.