tkinter problem

[Peter Otten]

Paul Simon wrote:

> 
> "Peter Otten" <__peter__ at web.de> wrote in message
> news:h3481q$d95$00$1 at news.t-online.com...
>> Paul Simon wrote:
>>
>>> "Chris Rebert" <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote in message
>>> news:mailman.2863.1247095339.8015.python-list at python.org...
>>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Paul Simon<psimon at sonic.net> wrote:
>>>> I have the "tkinter" problem and need some assistance to straighten it
>>>> out.
>>>> >From the web page "http://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter" I tested as in
>>>> >"step
>>>> 1" and cannot import "_tkinter." I do not have that file on my
>>>> computer, but
>>>> do have tkinter.py in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/lib-tk. as well as the
>>>> directories /usr/lib/tk8.5 and /usr/lib/tcl8.5.
>>>> This python stuff is great, but the documentation frequently
>>>> feels like it is just a bit out of my grasp. I realize that all of this
>>>> is free but I understand the instructions on the web page to repair
>>>> only to the
>>>> point of confusion. I'm not an expert. How do I modify my python
>>>> configuration? Is there a file that needs to be edited? Which setup.py
>>>> file
>>>> do I use? Make? or python setup.py build and python setup.py install?
>>>> Thanks. I appreciate your help.
>>>
>>> - How did you install Python?
>>> - What Linux distro are you using?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Chris
>>> http://blog.rebertia.com
>>> I"m using Mandriva 2008.1.  I have to tell you honestly that I'm not
>>> sure
>>> exactly how I installed Python.  Originally I had installed 2.5 from RPM
>>> but 2.6 was not available for my distro (2008.1) in RPM.  I downloaded
>>> something from python.org and installed.  Not sure if it was tarball or
>>> zip file.
>>
>> Zip or tar doesn't matter, you are installing "from source".
>>
>> Python has to find the necessary include files for tcl/tk. These are in
>> separate packages that you have to install before you invoke Python's
>> configure script.
>>
>> I don't know what they are called on your system -- look for tk-dev.rpm,
>> tcl-dev.rpm or similar.
>>
>> You may run into the same problem with other modules like readline.
>>
>> Peter
>>
> 
> Thank you Peter.  I understand what you are saying but don't know how to
> do
> it.  Although I installed from source, I followed a "cookbook" recipe.
> Could you tell me what files to execute, where they might be, and file
> arguments?  I'm just ignorant, not stupid. ;-).
> 
> Paul

Once you have the necessary development packages for tcl/tk just go into the 
directory where you unzipped the source and

./configure
make
sudo make altinstall

Unfortunately I don't know the names of these packages nor how to install 
them, and Google didn't turn up anything useful.

If you don't get any additional answers here you may try a Mandriva forum 
since this is not a question that requires python knowlegde.

Peter