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Making sure that the 'gtk' ("PyGTK") module for Python is installed correctly

I was setting up an environment to code a plugin for Gourmet Recipe Manager, and ran into trouble. The script was reporting:

ImportError: No module named gtk

Turns out I had to install PyGTK. I did that, but it still wasn't working. So I found a series of tests to do:

$ python
Python 2.3.5 (#2, Jun 19 2005, 13:28:00) 
[GCC 3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-6)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pygtk; pygtk.require('2.0')
>>> import gtk
>>> gtk.Window

>>>

That showed me it wasn't installed correctly (duh!) and I quickly realized that I had inadvertently installed the wrong PyGTK package. I downloaded the "all in one" PyGTK package (which I had missed before, since I didn't read the full filename), and it worked.

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