No Tkinter in Red Hat 8!?

[Dave Reed]

On Thursday 05 December 2002 13:43, Martin Franklin wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 16:52, Ivan J. wrote:
> > After trying to emerge from windows into Linux I dodn't expect to
> > discover Tkinter is not there, but I couldn't find it. Red Hat is 
not
> > realy programmers paradise, is it or is it not? Anyhow, I think to
> > download python source and make it under Red Hat 8, in hope that I
> > will find Tkinter there, only thing is: I am not sure how. Will
> > someone instruct me, or coment any of my incorect passed 
conclusions.
> > Thanks.
> 
> It is always a good idea to try compiling Python yourself, however I
> have RedHat 8 I installed all the 'Development' packages and I have
> python 2.2.1 with Tkinter.  There are, according to the new package
> management tool 45 'core' development tools (including python and 
perl)
> perhaps this is what you are missing.
> 
> HTH
> Martin

Red Hat almost deleted it (it wasn't in the first beta), but a number
of beta testers complained and they added it back. The RPM you want is:

tkinter-2.2.1-17

Dave