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