Running IDLE other than root?

Courageous jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Tue Aug 1 00:20:44 EDT 2000


> I understand that everyone (including the book) said that this is a Tk
> problem.  Not being built.  Thing is, when I log in as root (not su in),
> IDLE works fine.  Importing of _tkinter works fine.  Any thoughts?  I
> would like to get this running.  Of course I would like to try the Emacs
> helper also.

Check the environment as root and yourself (printenv)
and see if the PATH or PYTHONPATH variables include
different directories. After that, check all the various
modules for readability.



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