Windows user needs to tell Unix admin what to install...help

[Alex]

> We are using an older C++ compiler (I don't think it even has bool)
> and I'm worried about it having build problems.

I don't know if this will work in your case, but here is what your
sysadmin might try first:

wget http://www.python.org/1.6/Python-1.6b1.tgz
tar zxf Python-1.6b1.tgz
cd Python-1.6b1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-thread
make && make install

If post any errors that this gives, you might be able to get more
specific help.  

Also have a look at the Modules/Setup file that this will generate, to
see if there are any extra modules that you want to turn on.  Since you
want IDLE, it sounds like you're going to at least want Tkinter.  Once
you've turned those on, do another 'make install'.

Alex.

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