[Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter fails - tcl/tk installation in Python fails

[Alex Luso]

  Thank you. That worked.

  -Alex

--- jepler at unpythonic.net wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:15:15PM -0700, Alex Luso
> wrote:
> > fails. This time is says that:
> > ----------
> > ./python: error while loading shared libraries:
> > libtk8.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No
> such
> > file or directory
> > make: *** [sharedmods] Error 127
> 
> This is because /usr/local/lib isn't in the dynamic
> linker's path.  One easy
> way to put it there is putting
> 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib' in your
> environment.
> 
> >   What on earth am I doing wrong? And why doesn't
> the
> > default installation of Python that comes with FC4
> > come with Tcl/Tk installed, as advertised?
> 
> tkinter is packaged as part of fedora but seems not
> to be installed by default.
> "yum install tkinter" should do the trick.
> 
> Jeff
> 



		
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