Re: Idle

[Hrvoje Blazevic]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you are compiling python and you want to build idle/tkinter, you
> need to have the development packages for tcl and tk. The python build
> scripts will only build tkinter should they find the libraries
> (libtk8.4.so and libtcl8.4.so) and the header files (tk.h and tcl.h).
> If you don't have the development packages installed, you most likely
> do not have the header files.
> 
> If you install the development packages and recompile, test by
> importing _tkinter. If that is successful, idle should run just fine.
> 

Thanks.
After installing new versions of Tcl/Tk, python compilation did work. 
What is surprising is that although Python is bundled with most (all?) 
Linux distros, Idle does not work on most???

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Re: Idle

[Hrvoje Blazevic]

Philippe C. Martin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I remember having that when the wrong version of TCL/TK was installed on my
> system.
> 

And what is the right version? I have versions that came with their 
respective distros (8.4.9 in case of Suse)

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Idle

[Hrvoje Blazevic]

How do I get Idle to work on Linux?

I've tried to compile 2.4.2 on Fedora core 4, and Suse 9.3, but Idle is 
after make install either missing (Fedora), or reports **Idle can't 
import Tkinter... **

Thanks

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