Tkinter with X without installing from fink

Question

how can I use tkinter with X without install it from fink? I don't want change my current python setup and I already have tkinter installed but it runs only in cocoa mode. is there any easy solution for this problem?

Answer 1

{quote:title=noname242 wrote:}
thanks. I've read that post and it ends up with a fink install of python. But fink will break a bunch of other python specific installs, numpy and scipy and my current 2.6 python setup. Besides, I don't really like all of the extra packages that fink tries to install. Isn't some way around this?
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Fink most certainly will NOT do that.
The worst it will do is put /sw/bin/python at the head of the path, before /usr/bin/python
Just do something like this:
alias python=/usr/bin/python
alias pythonx=/sw/bin/python
or whatever else you need, or don't source /sw/bin/init.sh unless you need what fink has.
Fink will install tcl, tk as dependencies, since you need these for the X11 version.
Otherwise, just download the X11-competent version of the source code and compile it yourself. You'll still need X11 versions of tcl and tk.