[Tutor] Can't Launch IDLE from Linux System

[Todd Chapman]

Hi all, I'm new to this list and have been working with python for a short
time now.  Still pretty much a novice but about to embark on a mission of
sorts with a python application project.  Anyhow...

I lost the original message, but I had the same errors come up and I HAD
tkinter on my machine.  I had to edit the setup file to uncomment and edit
the proper lines for tkinter support to be built.  The installation readme
that comes with python is more concise that I am, but it should be in there.
You may want to make sure that you have TCL/TK first as D-Man suggests by
looking into your (/usr/lib or /usr/local/lib) directories.  The setup file
will want those paths anyway.

Todd
----- Original Message -----
From: "D-Man" <dsh8290@rit.edu>
To: <tutor@python.org>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Can't Launch IDLE from Linux System


> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:43:00AM -0800, Britt Green wrote:
> | Howdy,
> |
> | I just got Mandrake 7.2 up and running. When I try to start IDLE, I get
the
> | following error message:
>
> Mandrake is rpm-based right?  Try and find a mandrake rpm for Tkinter.
> If you go to the BeOpen site, I believe they have source rpms for
> Python 2.0.  Get it and run
>
> rpm --rebuild NameOfSourceRpm.srpm
>
> to build rpms of python and tkinter specifically for your system.
> Then install them.
>
> I always liked to build the srpms when I was running a RedHat system.
> Now I use Debain ;-).
>
> (
>   $ apt-get install python2-tk
>
>   apt will resolve all dependencies such as the interpreter itself
> )
>
> -D
>
>
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