IDLE's "Confiugre Idle" window is not opening

Hi I am new to this community.

I have recently installed ubuntu-mate 16.04 . I installed idle from terminal by running this code -

$ sudo apt-get install idle

Now when I open its "configure idle" its task bar freezes.

I then tried to run idle from terminal and then open that window the error shown is like

I was not able to solve it any further. Help me please. Thanks in advance

Seems to work for me.

First guess is another ppa (third party software) is causing a conflict. I do not use 'idle' so I'm not going to be much help beyond this.

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I was able to reproduce the bug.
@anon42388993, once that window is open you have to first go to Options -> Configure and then watch your terminal.
@piusbnsl, I think that error comes from an incompatible version of the Tcl/Tk package. I’m not sure how to fix it.

Under Ubuntu MATE 16.04:

tcl is already the newest version (8.6.0+9).

Edit: idle3 is also affected.

Edit2: Submitted bug report on launchpad: Bug #1598673, please mark yourselves as affected using the green link at the top of the page so the bug report will be confirmed and people can start working on it.

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And further to the suggestions from @anon42388993 and @ouroumov, make sure you do a full system update which often solves such problems!: