[Tutor] Tkinter import error

[John DeStefano]

Hi all,

I've been lurking for a while; I'm just picking up Python and most of
the posts have been a bit over my head.

I've run into an error that I've seen reported in several places, but
none of the fixes seem to be working for me: when I try to "import
Tkinter" I get a configuration error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 38, in <module>
    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ImportError: No module named _tkinter

I actually have 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 on this system (RHEL4 Linux), and I
compiled 2.5 from scratch.  I've tried installing the tkinter package
for my OS and re-compiling Python (with both "make clean" and "make
distclean" first), but I still get the same error.  I also checked to
make sure that "Tkinter.py" exists in the path shown in the error, and
it is there (dated the last time I recompiled Python 2.5).

What else can I try?

Thank you,
~John