tkinter problem

[Terry Reedy]

Paul Simon wrote:
> "Peter Otten" <__peter__ at web.de> wrote in message 
> news:h3481q$d95$00$1 at news.t-online.com...
>> Paul Simon wrote:
>>

>>> I"m using Mandriva 2008.1.  I have to tell you honestly that I'm not sure
>>> exactly how I installed Python.  Originally I had installed 2.5 from RPM
>>> but 2.6 was not available for my distro (2008.1) in RPM.  I downloaded
>>> something from python.org and installed.  Not sure if it was tarball or
>>> zip file.
>> Zip or tar doesn't matter, you are installing "from source".
>>
>> Python has to find the necessary include files for tcl/tk. These are in
>> separate packages that you have to install before you invoke Python's
>> configure script.
>>
>> I don't know what they are called on your system -- look for tk-dev.rpm,
>> tcl-dev.rpm or similar.
>>
>> You may run into the same problem with other modules like readline.
>>
>> Peter
>>
> 
> Thank you Peter.  I understand what you are saying but don't know how to do 
> it.  Although I installed from source, I followed a "cookbook" recipe. 
> Could you tell me what files to execute, where they might be, and file 
> arguments?  I'm just ignorant, not stupid. ;-).

Is there a Mandriva list where you can ask such distribution-specific 
questions?