_tkinter.so: undefined symbol: PyThread_acquire_lock

Thomas Gagne tgagne at ix.netcom.com
Tue Aug 1 12:17:37 EDT 2000


Sigh, after following those instructions I'm still getting:

tgagne:/home/tgagne/tmp/idle-0.5 ./idle.py
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "./idle.py", line 2, in ?
    import PyShell
  File "./PyShell.py", line 12, in ?
    from Tkinter import *
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 8, in ?
    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ImportError: /usr/lib/python1.5/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so: undefined symbol:
PyThread_acquire_lock





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