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Re: Python3 Tkinter difficulty

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: Python3 Tkinter difficulty
Date 2011-03-29 15:42 -0400
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On 3/29/2011 1:52 PM, harrismh777 wrote:

> Thanks. You're right... I don't have tk-dev installed. duh. And I have
> choices to make... it looks like setup.py is looking for 8.4 headers; I

3.2 (which you should definitely be starting with) should, I think, be 
looking for 8.5, which I believe is years old now and required, I also 
believe, for the tkinter.ttk module.

> have TclTk 8.5x installed. From the standard repository it looks like I
> can download and install tk-dev (dependency package) and|or tk-dev 8.3,
> or 8.4, or 8.5... and I am not sure which of these is what is needed
> without causing other problems. Can 8.4 and 8.5 be installed together
> without problem? Does it really matter which of these I use for the
> purpose of python build? If I have TclTk 8.5 installed should I only
> download the 8.5 tk-dev package?

I would start with that and then make that work.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Re: Python3 Tkinter difficulty harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-03-29 12:52 -0500
  Re: Python3 Tkinter difficulty Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-03-29 15:42 -0400
    Re: Python3 Tkinter difficulty harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-03-29 21:46 -0500

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