Tkinter installation problems

Mladen Bestvina bestvina at math.utah.edu
Wed Feb 23 14:28:52 EST 2000


Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> Mladen Bestvina <bestvina at math.utah.edu> wrote:
> > Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> > >
> > > Tkinter as distributed with Python 1.5.2 does *not* work with
> > > Tk 8.1 and later.  either use 8.0.5, or get patches from here:
> >
> > I have Tk 8.0.5:
> >
> > mladen at drava:/home/mladen/projects/grayson > wish
> > % info library
> > /usr/local/lib/tcl8.0
> > %
> 
> well, that only means that wish was linked against 8.0,
> not that _tkinter.so is linked against it...
> 
> but alright, try setting TK_LIBRARY and TCL_LIBRARY to
> point to the configuration files, e.g:
> 
>     % export TCL_LIBRARY=/usr/local/lib/tcl8.0/library
>     % export TK_LIBRARY=/usr/local/lib/tk8.0/library
> 

That didn't make any difference. 

Mladen



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