More tkinter Madness

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 11/13/2015 01:58 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 11/13/2015 12:14 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>> On 11/13/2015 12:32 AM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
>>> Apfelkiste:Sources chris$
>>
>> Well, I get window and when I do this:
>>
>> pack [button .b -text Hello -command exit]
>>
>> Nothing appears.
>>
>> tkinter appears borked
>>
>> I have reinstalled once already, will try again
> 
> Tkinter is the name of the Python package for using Tk, but Tk itself is
> usually called Tk (package on Fedora and RHEL is tk).
> 
> On my CentOS installs, in /usr/share/tk8.5/demos, there are a number of
> Tcl/Tk demos you can run.  If Tcl and Tk are working, then I would move
> to reinstalling tkinter.
> 

Yep, tcl/tk is borked.  That would explain why pure X apps like xterm work, but not tkinter apps.
Reinstalling tcl/tk has not helped at all.  Now I am really curious what the interaction is between VPS and tk... Sigh. 


(Thanks)