error with IDLE on debian

[johnzenger at gmail.com]

Just a guess, but I think you need to be using at least Python 2.4 if
you are going to use IDLE version 2.4.4-2.

On Dec 20, 1:16 pm, altern <alte... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> when i try to run IDLE on my debian laptop I get this error.
>
> $ idle
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/bin/idle", line 5, in ?
>      main()
>    File "idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1359, in main
>    File "idlelib/FileList.py", line 44, in new
>    File "idlelib/PyShell.py", line 105, in __init__
>    File "idlelib/EditorWindow.py", line 111, in __init__
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2764, in __init__
>      Widget.__init__(self, master, 'text', cnf, kw)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1865, in __init__
>      self.tk.call(
> _tkinter.TclError: expected integer but got "`100"
>
> I am not sure about what could cause the problem because I didnt use my
> laptop for python programming for couple of weeks. Before that it worked
> fine. And on that period i might have installed few things.
>
> I am running Debian unstable with python 2.2.4, tcl8.4, tk8.4, python-tk
> 24.4-1 and IDLE 2.4.4-2. I already tried to reinstall IDLE, tk and tcl
> and python-tk but that did not solve anything, i keep getting the same
> error.
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> thanks
> 
> enrike