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Can't get Tkinter to work

Can't get Tkinter to work - Python 2.2 and RedHat 8

Steven Faulconer geek at cfl.rr.com
Sat Jan 11 17:11:35 EST 2003 
R. C. Ellis wrote:
> Apparently RedHat 8 doesn't install the Tkinter libs, so I downloaded, 
> built and installed the latest 2.2 release.  I located lib-tk and put 
> that in a PYTHONPATH environment variable, but things like Idle and 
> "from Tkinter import *" can't find it.
> 
> I must be missing something, but I can't figure out what.
> 
> RC
> 

RC,

Not sure I can be of much assitance, but near the end of the compile of 
Python, it runs something like, 'python setup.py build' which from what 
I can tell, scans your system for various libraries and builds and 
additional modules that it finds, hence, if it finds TCL/TK libraries, 
it will build Tkinter. You might try running 'python setup.py build' by 
hand and see what it does when it gets to Tkinter, might give you a bit 
more information to go on. My problem has always been not finding the 
libraries or headers. Hope that helps somewhat.

Steven
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