tkinter

[Thomas Wouters]

On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 04:05:04AM +0000, Simon wrote:

> I had the same problem with tcl, tk and mysql modules.  The problem is the
> executable doesn't look for the libs in /usr/local/lib (I haven't put much
> thought into figuring out why).  I solved the problem by making symbolic
> links to those libraries in a directory which I was sure the interpreter
> would read:
> /usr/lib.

> >From /usr/lib, enter
>     ln -s /usr/local/lib/libtk8.3.so libtk.8.3.so

> I'd like to take this clutter out of /usr/lib.  Can anyone tell me how to
> get the interpreter to seek libraries in additional directories?

Edit /etc/ld.so.conf, add the required library path there, and run
'ldconfig'. (as root, obviously.)

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