Help on Tkinter installation

[John Slimick]

Well, thanks to some email and a fair amount of
time with Mr Google, I found that I needed to
update the Setup file. 

(Platform: RH 8.0)

Prior to this I installed ActiveTCL8.4 .

So I made what I thought were the appropriate
changes to the "tkinter" section of Setup, I went up
a level (to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/Python-2.3.2),
did a "make" and this is what I got:

   file libtk8.4.so does not exist

Well, when I do a locate, I find libtk8.4.so
in

   /usr/local/ActionTcl/lib/libtk8.4.so

So I am caught with some kind of path problem.

Any ideas or suggestions?

(And thanks to all the respondents so far)

john slimick
slimick at pitt.edu

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> John Slimick wrote:
>> I want to do a little Tkinter in my 1 credit 
>> python practicum, but I am having problems
>> getting everything installed correctly.
>> A sample of the problem is below:
>> 
>> 
>> ------------------- The python source, test.py ------------------
>> from graphics import *
>> 
>> def main():
>>     win = GraphWin("My Circle", 100, 100)
>>     c = Circle(Point(50,50), 10)
>>     c.draw(win)
>> 
>> main()
>> 
>> ----------- result of $python test.py --------------------------
>> 
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "test.py", line 1, in ?
>>     from graphics import *
>>   File "/home/slimick/cs198/graphics.py", line 85, in ?
>>     import Tkinter
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 38, in ?
>>     import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
>>   ImportError: No module named _tkinter
>> 
>> ------------result of $locate _tkinter ------------------------------
>> 
>> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/Python-2.3.2/Mac/Build/_dummy_tkinter.mcp
>> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/Python-2.3.2/Mac/Build/_dummy_tkinter.mcp.exp
>> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/Python-2.3.2/Mac/Modules/_dummy_tkinter.c
>> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/Python-2.3.2/Modules/_tkinter.c
>> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/Python-2.3.2/PC/os2vacpp/_tkinter.def
>> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/Python-2.3.2/PCbuild/_tkinter.dsp
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> I would appreciate any help on this.
>> 
>> And, thanks in advance
>> 
>> john slimick
>> slimick at pitt,edu
>> university of pittsburgh at bradford
> 
> john,
>     Go here:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-September/181603.html
> wes
>