[Tutor] Linux installation

Magnus Lycka magnus@thinkware.se
Wed Dec 11 17:48:02 2002


At 16:41 2002-12-11 -0500, shendric@arches.uga.edu wrote:
>I just installed Python 2.2.2 on a Linux machine with a 2.4.18-14
>kernel, and after doing the "configure" "make" dance, I tried to open
>IDLE, but I received a message saying that my system might not be
>configured for Tk.  Has anyone who has installed Python on Linux had
>problems with installing it?

Python's standard GUI, Tkinter, needs Tcl/Tk to be installed. Is it?
I'm using Mandrake 9 and their standard RPMs, so I don't have any
problems.


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