Ben:
The following gets everything but tkinter working with Python 2.4.3
But it's tkinter that I need (I had everything else working).
#0. You need the basics, eg. gcc, gcc-c++, vim-enhanced, wget etc. There's some other stuff on this install, so if you still have problems I can give you some more info.
Check!
#1. I installed yum packages in this order (and accepted the dependencies). No doubt not all of these are needed, but I don't know which ones are safe to avoid and I just need to get something up and working to develop on ASAP.
zlib-devel libjpeg-devel freetype freetype-devel tcl tcl-devel tk tk-devel
That was it! As soon as I installed tcl-devel and tk-devel, the setup.py script built tkinter for me! I'm up and running now.
Now I just need to figure out how to make an RPM out of this Python build...
Thanks, Alfred