FWIW, we just installed Python 2.4 (on RH Linx 8), rebuilt it from scratch and everything is fine. Tkinter is there, _tkinter as well and idle comes up as expected. /Jean Brouwers In article <mailman.6996.1101939598.5135.python-list at python.org>, Jeffrey Barish <jeffbarish at starband.net> wrote: > http://www.python.org/moin/TkInter