[Tutor] Can't Launch IDLE from Linux System
Todd Chapman
todd@slideburn.com
Mon, 5 Mar 2001 15:50:45 -0700
Hi all, I'm new to this list and have been working with python for a short
time now. Still pretty much a novice but about to embark on a mission of
sorts with a python application project. Anyhow...
I lost the original message, but I had the same errors come up and I HAD
tkinter on my machine. I had to edit the setup file to uncomment and edit
the proper lines for tkinter support to be built. The installation readme
that comes with python is more concise that I am, but it should be in there.
You may want to make sure that you have TCL/TK first as D-Man suggests by
looking into your (/usr/lib or /usr/local/lib) directories. The setup file
will want those paths anyway.
Todd
----- Original Message -----
From: "D-Man" <dsh8290@rit.edu>
To: <tutor@python.org>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Can't Launch IDLE from Linux System
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:43:00AM -0800, Britt Green wrote:
> | Howdy,
> |
> | I just got Mandrake 7.2 up and running. When I try to start IDLE, I get
the
> | following error message:
>
> Mandrake is rpm-based right? Try and find a mandrake rpm for Tkinter.
> If you go to the BeOpen site, I believe they have source rpms for
> Python 2.0. Get it and run
>
> rpm --rebuild NameOfSourceRpm.srpm
>
> to build rpms of python and tkinter specifically for your system.
> Then install them.
>
> I always liked to build the srpms when I was running a RedHat system.
> Now I use Debain ;-).
>
> (
> $ apt-get install python2-tk
>
> apt will resolve all dependencies such as the interpreter itself
> )
>
> -D
>
>
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