installing idle on Suse Linux 6.4

[Karl Eichwalder]

"brett kraabel" <bkraabel at hotmail.com> writes:

> I need help installing idle on Suse Linux 6.4. Python and Tcl/Tk are (I
> think) properly installed.  Here's what I get when I try to run idle:
> 
> bkraabel at linux:/opt/Python-1.5.2/Tools/idle > idle
> bash: idle: command not found
> bkraabel at linux:/opt/Python-1.5.2/Tools/idle > idle.py
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "./idle.py", line 2, in ?
>     import PyShell
>   File "./PyShell.py", line 12, in ?
>     from Tkinter import *
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 8, in ?
>     import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
> ImportError: No module named _tkinter

I never tried to install IDLE, sorry.  The general recipe is:  Install
the needed packages (SuSE names: pyth_tkl and pyth_tk) and tell IDLE to
look for them under /usr/lib/python1.5 .

I hope this helps.

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