harrismh777 wrote: > Greetings folks, > I am very new to this usenet forum, and I am brand new to Python3...
Welcome. > so be gentle <please> We don't eat children above the age of three ;) > The source tarball for Python3 compiled and installed (local install > for first experiments $HOME/local/) and runs very well in my terminal. > I am not able to run IDLE because the compile build process could > not build the _tkinter module, I think because TclTk is not installed on > this system in the standard places... Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. I have TclTk > installed version 8.5x and tclsh and wish work fine... also IDLE on > python 2.62 works fine too. > I am noticing that setup.py has the path to the TclTk libs hardcoded > for /usr/X11R6/... and my TclTk is not there... so I'm thinking that I > need to direct the setup.py path to the right place and thinngs should > work... but, I'm at a bit of a loss to know exactly what its looking > for... libs, or libs and devel headers? or other? Most likely the development headers. Try installing tk-dev. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
