Troubleshoot: Problem getting Tkinter to work with Python 2.2C1 on Linux

Dan Compton coca at houston.rr.com
Sat Dec 22 01:48:18 EST 2001


Nevermind this post.  I figured out what I had done wrong.
    Dan

"Dan Compton" <coca at houston.rr.com> wrote in message
news:60c49aa9.0112202125.520fd62 at posting.google.com...
> I built python 2.2 release candidate 1 on my Linux laptop (Mandrake
> 8.0 distro) after reading everything in the README file in the root of
> the source tree.  I tried importing Tkinter after testing other
> modules successfully and found that it wasn't able to be found by the
> interpreter so I backtracked and read the README regarding Tkinter
> again.  I had already uncommented the relevant lines in the
> Modules/Setup file but I went back and double checked everything
> looked correct and it was.  I read that you should try to perform a
> "make install libinstall" under the Tkinter section if it was
> recognized and so I did that but it pretty much looked as if it was
> the same process as "make install" and after it finished and I tested
> it, Tkinter was still no where to be found.  The make process built
> _tkinter to my knowledge and the make install or make install
> libinstall should have linked the Tkinter module to _tkinter.  Then I
> noticed that _tkinter wasn't able to found either when I tried
> importing it.  Well I am lost now and don't know what to do to get
> this to work... help, please :)
>
>      Dan





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