No, And there's a reason (perhaps not a great one - but I'm got some constraints).
I am not the system administrator and the tcl installer wants to be installed as root. I tried it. The rationale for not doing this is that the installation packages that I am administrator for, are all installed in non-root directories. by non-root people. If I have to install any package as root, then that becomes "different". The machines are all linux and intended to be swappable/exchangeable and installed by anyone without root access. This simplifies maintenance when a large number of boxes are involved. Are there any tcl/tk packages that permit re-direction of installation to non-root directories? This problem is just an ongoing irritation, python works fine without tkinter, I just can't get idle to work without it. Related to that I tailored Ipython to work with gtk (ipython's default was tkinter) - tailoring was by a command - is there any way to command idle to use gtk? On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Peter Otten wrote: > robert schaefer wrote: > >> tkinter is in two parts: >> 1. a python wrapper >> 2. c code >> >> Both are present in the 2.6.2 python download. >> It appears to be a "I can't find the library" path problem not a file >> existence problem. >> >> 1. gcc can't find the libraries that tkinter c code links to ( I could fix >> that) 2. the python installer can't find all the library paths to all the >> pieces - I started fixing this, then determined it would be easier to >> rewrite from scratch than patch. That is, the given method of building >> paths in the script are way off from reality, not just an add this one >> path and everything will now work kind of magic. I felt that the >> "official" python people would have an easier time of this - so gave up. > > Just to exclude the simple problems (unfortunately I can't help you with the > hard ones): Are the tcl development packages installed on your system? > > Peter > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > !DSPAM:4ba0e1dc51621869525538! > ----------------------------------- robert schaefer Atmospheric Sciences Group MIT Haystack Observatory Westford, MA 01886 email: r...@haystack.mit.edu voice: 781-981-5767 www: http://www.haystack.mit.edu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
