Tkinter on Silicon Graphics machine?

[David Lees]

petercable at gmail.com wrote:
> David Lees wrote:
>> Does anyone have advice on installing Tkinter on s Silicon Graphics
>> machine (under IRIX 6, I think). The SysAdmin at work build Python 2.4.3
>> for me on the SGI box, but it does not have Tkinter.  Are there any
>> prebuilt distributions for SGI machines that include Tkinter?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> david lees
> 
> I don't have the disks in front of me now, but I think the freeware
> disks included with Irix have Python on them. Otherwise, you could
> download it from
> http://freeware.sgi.com/Installable/python-2.1.1-sgipl1.html
> 
> If you want 2.4, the sysadmin could rebuild Python after installing the
> Tcl/Tk libraries (which you will need to use Tkinter anyway.) As long
> as libtcl and libtk are in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib, Tkinter will be
> built automatically when Python is built.
> 
> Pete
> 

Pete,

Thanks for the advice.  This is quite helpful.  I will pass this on to 
the sysadmin.

David Lees