From: Gianluca Interlandi (gianluca_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 06 2011 - 00:13:41 CDT

ok, I solved the problem by downloading the pre-compiled python libraries:

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/pythonlib/

Gianluca

On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Gianluca Interlandi wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am trying to execute a python script in VMD, but I get some problem when
> loading _tkinter:
>
> Info) Starting Python...
> Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> ValueError: vmdnumpy module not available.
> Info) Text interpreter now Python
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "VMD", line 24, in <module>
> ImportError: No module named optparse
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> File "/home/gianluca/VMD/vmd-1.8.7/lib/vmd/scripts/python/Tkinter.py", line
> 59, in <module>
> import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
> ImportError: No module named _tkinter
>
>
> The following packages related to python/tk are installed on my system:
>
> python-2.6.5-2.11.x86_64
> python-tk-2.6.5-3.3.1.x86_64
> tk-8.5.8-3.1.x86_64
> tk-devel-8.5.8-3.1.x86_64
> tcl-8.5.8-4.53.x86_64
> tcl-devel-8.5.8-4.53.x86_64
>
> Any advice what I need to do to enable the tkinter module?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gianluca
>
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>
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Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca_at_u.washington.edu
                     +1 (206) 685 4435
                     http://artemide.bioeng.washington.edu/

Postdoc at the Department of Bioengineering
at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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