[CentOS] CentOS4.3: Upgrade Python for Zope&Plone

Tue Jul 25 02:57:00 UTC 2006
Alfred von Campe <alfred at 110.net>

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