Tkinter not installed

[anuradha.k.r at sify.com]

hi,
 i am very sorry.i am using Redhat Linux 8.0.
I 've downloaded few rpm files "tkinter-2.2.1-17.i386.rpm"
will this be of any use?if so how do i extract the files from rpm(i
know that it is used to compress some software files).
do suggest a solution.
thanx.
Akr.

"Xavier Martinez" <xavim at fqingenieria.es> wrote in message news:<mailman.1064930988.24641.python-list at python.org>...
> >   Have a problem in python installation.I have already installed
> > python 2.2 in my linux machine,but i guess tkinter packages were not
> > selected then.Now i want to use tkinter as an interface for my
> > program(actually i wanted to check if my python program written in
> > windows side works fine on linux side also).
> >     is there any way i can include the tkinter packages?if so where
> > can i find those files?
> 
> It depends of what linux distribution are you using (you should 
> specify it).  If you have a Debian box, simply type (as root):
> 
> $ apt-get install python2.2-tk