tkinter does not load in FC-5 and devel

[Jens Petersen]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:11:51 +0100
"Jose' Matos" <jamatos at fc.up.pt> wrote:

> Example:
> $ ipython
> ...
> In [1]: from Tkinter import *
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> exceptions.ImportError                               Traceback (most recent 
> call last)
> 
> /root/<ipython console>
> 
> /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py
>      36 if sys.platform == "win32":
>      37     import FixTk # Attempt to configure Tcl/Tk without requiring PATH
> ---> 38 import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for 
> Tk
>      39 tkinter = _tkinter # b/w compat for export
>      40 TclError = _tkinter.TclError
> 
> ImportError: libTix8.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
> directory
:
> 	Have this been reported before? Where should I add this report? python, 
> tix, ...
> 
> 	I am reporting this since python-imaging does not build its tk interface due 
> to this. It works for FC-4 but not for FC-5 and devel.

Hmm, I don't know the exact answer to your question and I just turned
down my fc5 box...

What does:

  $ tclsh
  % package require Tix

do for you?

If that works, then perhaps it is a tkinter bug: and tkinter
is part of python.

Hope that helps a little,

Jens