Python3 Tkinter difficulty

[Peter Otten]

harrismh777 wrote:

> Greetings folks,
>     I am very new to this usenet forum, and I am brand new to Python3...

Welcome.

> so be gentle <please>

We don't eat children above the age of three ;)

>     The source tarball for Python3 compiled and installed (local install
> for first experiments $HOME/local/) and runs very well in my terminal.
>     I am not able to run IDLE because the compile build process could
> not build the _tkinter module, I think because TclTk is not installed on
> this system in the standard places... Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty.  I have TclTk
> installed version 8.5x and tclsh and wish work fine... also IDLE on
> python 2.62 works fine too.
>     I am noticing that setup.py has the path to the TclTk libs hardcoded
> for /usr/X11R6/...  and my TclTk is not there... so I'm thinking that I
> need to direct the setup.py path to the right place and thinngs should
> work... but, I'm at a bit of a loss to know exactly what its looking
> for... libs, or libs and devel headers?   or other?

Most likely the development headers. Try installing tk-dev.