robert schaefer wrote: > This is my first posting to this list so please be gentle - > > I am new to python and am using it on red-hat linux (I am new to that > too). I am responsible for installing open source packages (including > python) onto a distributed system of linux boxes. > > My question is, on python version 2.6.2 tkinter refuses to install.
Does it say "I'm sorry Bob, I'm afraid I can't do this"? > Without tkinter, I cannot use Idle. > > I looked at the install/configure script and hacked it a bit, but every > fix only caused new problems. > There are serious issues with that script for finding necessary > libraries. If there are serious problems you have to give some details. However, if in the past a newbie had problems with Tkinter support on linux the most frequent problem was that the Tcl/Tk development libraries weren't installed. I don't know how those are called on Red Hat, maybe something like tcl*-dev.rpm Did you install these before running the configure script? Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
