After migrating from debian to ubuntu, tkinter "hello world" doesn't work

[Wade Leftwich]

mortuno at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> My tkinter apps worked fine in debian linux (woody and sarge)
> I moved to ubuntu 5.10
>
> I follow the 'hello world' test as seen in
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter
> 

Ubuntu uses X.org. Did your Debian distro use xfree86?