[Tkinter-discuss] How to configure the non-default Python version to work with tk

Noelia Oses noses at fatronik.com
Wed Feb 17 16:41:47 CET 2010


Hi all,

I have a very newby question.
I'm using a computer with Ubuntu Karmic Koala. 
The Ubuntu has python 2.6 installed by default, and this default installation includes tkinter.

However, I'm using a platform (NuPIC) that needs Python 2.5. This I had to install manually in /usr/local.
Unfortunately, the manually installed version that I need doesn't seem to be able to find the tkinter libraries.

I have tried with "sudo apt-get install python2.5-tk" but it doesn't install it as it notices there is a newer version already.

The error message that I get is:

noses at PCF-191-0907l:~/NuPIC/current/share/projects/bitworm$ python DisplayReport.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "DisplayReport.py", line 18, in <module>
    from pylab import *
  File "/home/noses/NuPIC/current/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pylab.py", line 1, in <module>
    from matplotlib.pylab import *
  File "/home/noses/NuPIC/current/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 253, in <module>
    from matplotlib.pyplot import *
  File "/home/noses/NuPIC/current/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 75, in <module>
    new_figure_manager, draw_if_interactive, show = pylab_setup()
  File "/home/noses/NuPIC/current/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/__init__.py", line 25, in pylab_setup
    globals(),locals(),[backend_name])
  File "/home/noses/NuPIC/current/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py", line 7, in <module>
    import Tkinter as Tk, FileDialog
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 38, in <module>
    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ImportError: No module named _tkinter


Any help figuring this out is very much appreciated!!

Best regards,
Noelia


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