<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this question, but it certainly fits into the edu-sig realm ;-)<br><br>I will be sponsoring a high school computer programming club again this year. I get older computers donated to me quite often, most in the Pentium3 range. Often they have a crippled version of Windows on them, but no restore disks, etc. Also, most of these computers will NOT be hooked up to the internet.<br><br>What I'd like to do is put a simpler LINUX distro on them (MepisLite is my current favorite for these situations), and then get Python up and running with IDLE working.<br><br>But it's not easy! I don't know of a distro yet that comes with a working IDLE installed. Whenever I've done the
source file dance ("./configure, make, make install") with newer versions of Python, I get the common PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH problems and also can't get IDLE to work.<br><br>Any suggestions or advice?<br><br>Richard<br><br>P.S. I know this sounds like a technical question for a n00b forum, but the context of this problem (I'm a teacher trying to set up some convenient Python boxes for my students to use) made me think it might be appropriate here. If not, I apologize in advance. I am, btw, getting our PCs in the computer lab set up with Python (and IDLE) running on Windows, I just wanted to put these donated comps to good use....<br><br></div></div><br>
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