tkinter with X without installing from fink

According to this, Python is hard-coded to use the native version.

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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.

It installs several packages that are related to the debian package management system.

It also installs gnutar and calls it "tar", which really irritates me (I can honestly say that as a heavy fink-user and minor-league maintainer, this is one of a very few complaints that I have.) The same alias trick solves that problem for me, but if you find fink annoying, you can always go into /sw/bin and delete whatever you find irksome. Fink keeps a debian archive of what it compiles, so reinstalling something you hack out takes only a few seconds.