Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:29:02 +0300 From: Andy Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Guy Middleton <guy@obstruction.com> Subject: Re: python builds without tkinter Message-ID: <200409290929.05352.andy@athame.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040929061636.GA50960@chaos.obstruction.com> References: <20040929061636.GA50960@chaos.obstruction.com>
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On Wednesday 29 September 2004 09:16, Guy Middleton wrote:
> On a 5.3-BETA5 system, built Python from the port, tkinter appears to
> be missing:
>
>
> $ python
> Python 2.3.4 (#2, Sep 29 2004, 02:13:43)
> [GCC 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728] on freebsd5
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
> information.
>
> >>> import Tkinter
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 38, in ?
> import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured
> for Tk ImportError: No module named _tkinter
>
>
>
> The system has tcl8.4 and tk8.4 installed, I thought the Python port
> would be able to find these.
See /usr/ports/lang/python/pkg-message, to see why tkinter is not
installed by default.
A.
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