Can't get Tkinter to work - Python 2.2 and RedHat 8

[R. C. Ellis]

Apparently RedHat 8 doesn't install the Tkinter libs, so I downloaded, 
built and installed the latest 2.2 release.  I located lib-tk and put 
that in a PYTHONPATH environment variable, but things like Idle and 
"from Tkinter import *" can't find it.

I must be missing something, but I can't figure out what.

RC