[Idle-dev] [ idlefork-Bugs-671359 ] IDLE RPM at Sourceforge Doesn't Work

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Bugs item #671359, was opened at 2003-01-20 15:54
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
Resolution: Accepted
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk)
Summary: IDLE RPM at Sourceforge Doesn't Work

Initial Comment:
 trying to install the  IDLEfork-0.9a1-1.noarch.rpm on  
RedHat 7.3 produces the error that this package needs  
"Python2-tkinter".  A search at rpmfind.net reveals that  
only a couple of distros use this package, and none are  
of the majors (RH, Mandrake, or SuSE).  I used the  
tarball, and it works fine; however, I believe it is a 
mistake to package the RPM with this dependency. 

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Comment By: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk)
Date: 2003-01-20 22:39

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As detailed in the installation notes, the RPM is designed
to work with the Python2 RPMs, including Python2-tkinter
available from:

http://www.python.org/2.2.2/   (and /2.2.1/)

A binary RPM was provided for convenience to those
Python2 users on RH 6.2-7.3.  Note that Python-2.2 can't
be installed in the standard location prior to RH8 since it
conflicts with Python1.5, which is required in the earlier
RH versions.  Therefore it was installed as Python2.

These details will be futher clarified in the Alpha 2
installation notes.  Thanks for the comments.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2003-01-20 15:58

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Should contain some qualifier in the RPM package name 
(such as, e.g., something like the .mdk that Mandrake uses) to 
indicate that it is not going to work with other distros. 

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