tix problem in ubuntu karmic

[Jeff Hobbs]

On Sep 27, 11:30 pm, harryos <oswald.ha... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had been using  jaunty as o.s and was coding in python 2.6. While
> using Tix widgets in my code I came across a bug as mentioned in
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tix/+bug/371720
...
> So ,I  thought upgrading to karmic would help .But even after the
> upgrade I am getting segmentation fault..I reinstalled python ,tk and
> tix through synaptic..Still the problem persists.
>
> The versions of packages installed  are
>
> python   =2.6.4-0ubuntu3
> python-tk =2.6.3-0ubuntu1
> tk8.5  =8.5.7-1
> tk8.4 =8.4.19-3
> tix  =8.4.0-6ubuntu1
> tix-dev =8.4.0-6ubuntu1

As the first link indicates, Tix 8.4.3 has this fixed, which is the
latest stable version:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tix/files/

Try building that from source and using it in place of Tix 8.4.0 that
you are currently using.

Jeff