1st install on Linux (RH 7.0) I hit a snaggg !!!

[Chris Nelson]

bowman wrote:

> Chris Nelson <fimafeng at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> news:3A93280C.2080802 at yahoo.com...
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>> "Tkinter-2.0-8.0-3 requires libtcl8.0.so"
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>> "Tkinter-2.0-8.0-3 requires libtk8.0.so"
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>> I show the following RPMs as beeing installed...
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>> tcl 8.3.1-46
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>> tcl 8.2.0-46
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>> tk  8.3.1-46
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> welcome to rpm hell. tcl8.0 is not tcl8.3. unless you have some
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> dependencies, you might remove the 8.3 rpms and install 8.0. I don't know if
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> the problems were resolved, but there were some issues with 8.3 that caused
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> people building packages that required tcl/tk to revert back to 8.0. rpm's
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> are fine things, but they imply your machine has all the bits and pieces
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> that the build machine had, which is not always the case.

I removed the 8.3 libraries (even though it said there were 
dependencies..installed the 8.0.5 series of tcl and tk....and TKinter 
installed all right. I was goint to then upgrade the 8.0's back to 8.3 
but I got the warning about those libraries mentioned above so I decided 
to wait.

BTW.. How do I start the IDLE in Linux???

Thanks,
Chris