I don't advise anyone to try and get anti-aliased fonts working in Linux (Ubuntu) by compiling python against Tk8.5, there's too much risk of messing things up. But I think I have it working now, so if you really want to...
Note: I upgraded to 8.04 because my attempts to get this working on 7.10 had messed that install up so badly I decided to abandon it. Install 8.04, and then, before you do anything else much: - install (using synaptic) Tk8.5 and its dev package - download Python 2.5.2 tar ball configure it like this: ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-unicode=ucs4 make make install The ucs4 bit is, I think, the magic bullet. By default the tar ball uses ucs2, but ubuntu uses ucs4, so all ubuntu's packages break, at least those with compile C code (.so) components. ucs2/ucs4 are pythons approach to utf8/utf16 encodings. - cd /usr/bin; rm python; ln -s python2.5 python The tar ball install hardlinks these two files, and the ubuntu system checks to make sure that /usr/bin/python is a *symbolic* link to python2.5 Packages which ubuntu thinks depend on tk8.4, like PIL, ImageTk, tkcvs etc., you will need to build from source, but others should work ok. Or just wait for python 2.6/3.0 :-) Cheers -Terry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
