Tkinter on RedHat Linux 9.0

[Russell E. Owen]

In article <103q06u9koeq30e at corp.supernews.com>,
 rich hammett <bubbarichau at warmmail.com> wrote:

>...
>In fact, the python rpm from redhat CLAIMS to include
>Tkinter already.  I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

My own experience with a freshly installed RH 9 system was that it 
included fairly old versions of tcl/tk and python, but no Tkinter.

But it seems likely that there are downloadable Python RPMs that include 
Tkinter. (Whether that includes the RPM at the RedHat site, I could not 
say.) Still... it's really easy to build Python from source (kudos to 
the developers!), and if tcl/tk are available in the usual location then 
Tkinter is automatically built. (That's the route I went because I also 
wanted a special destination directory.) If you do go this route, be 
sure to check the ReadMe; there's a build flag you should set for RH 
Linux.

-- Russell