On 30 Oct, 22:36, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Should I need to download a later version of tkinter and/or should I > > alter setup.py in my python install directory and then remake? > > Neither, nor. You need the Tk header files installed; they probably > come in a package called libtk8.4-dev or some such in your system. > If they are present when setup.py runs, _tkinter will get built > automatically. If you don't have the header files of Tk installed, > no amount of fiddling with setup.py, or getting alternative sources > of tkinter, will actually get you a _tkinter module. > > HTH, > Martin
There is indeed such package on the system: libtk8.4- devel-8.4.13-1mdk, which installs. However upon running make in the python2.5.1 download directory INFO: Can't locate Tcl/Tk libs and/or headers running build_scripts The only file on the system before installing the above package with a libtk name is libtk8.4.so.0 in /usr/lib after the package is installed /usr/lib contains: 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 31 07:43 libtk8.4.so -> libtk8.4.so.0* 969 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 986216 Apr 21 2006 libtk8.4.so.0* 1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 119 Apr 21 2006 libtk.so* 183 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 186092 Apr 21 2006 libtkstub8.4.a however make still complains of the non existance of the the Tcl/Tk libs and/or headers copying these file to /usr/local/lib where python2.5 seems to be makes no difference.
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