Installing tkinter on FreeBSD

[Thomas Jollans]

On 24/10/17 00:16, Dick Holmes wrote:
> I am trying to use tkinter on a FreeBSD system but the installed 
> versions of Python (2.7 and 3.6) don't have thinter configured. I tried 
> to download the source (no binaries available for FreeBSD) and build a 
> new version of Python but the build reported that it couldn't install 
> _tkinter. Despite this report, Python works for non-tkinter 
> applications. Is there a magical formula for configuring tkinter during 
> or after a build??

If you have Tcl/Tk installed, the configure script should detect it.

Is Tcl/Tk installed? If yes, does the configure script output say
anything about tcl, tk or tkinter?


-- Thomas