[Python-Dev] Installing 2.0 seems to have broken Tkinter

Eric S. Raymond esr@golux.thyrsus.com
Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:08:28 -0500


I installed from the Beopen-Python-2.0 RPM at Source Forge.  Now:

golux:~/WWW/fetchmail$ fetchmailconf
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./fetchmailconf", line 9, in ?
    from Tkinter import *
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.0/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 35, in ?
    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ImportError: No module named _tkinter

This is a serious problem.  Is there a non-broken RPM out there?
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