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On 11/13/2015 12:14 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> On 11/13/2015 12:32 AM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
>> Apfelkiste:Sources chris$
> 
> Well, I get window and when I do this:
> 
> pack [button .b -text Hello -command exit]
> 
> Nothing appears.
> 
> tkinter appears borked
> 
> I have reinstalled once already, will try again

Tkinter is the name of the Python package for using Tk, but Tk itself is
usually called Tk (package on Fedora and RHEL is tk).

On my CentOS installs, in /usr/share/tk8.5/demos, there are a number of
Tcl/Tk demos you can run.  If Tcl and Tk are working, then I would move
to reinstalling tkinter.