[Baypiggies] Eric and Idle on XO (was Playing with IDEs)

Edward Cherlin echerlin at gmail.com
Mon Dec 24 21:55:36 CET 2007


FYI. Sorry for all the top posting.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeffrey Kesselman <jeffpk at gmail.com>
Date: Dec 24, 2007 9:18 AM
Subject: Fwd: Playing with IDEs
To: "devel Devel.List" <devel at lists.laptop.org>

Its up and working!

It is however kind of cramped, which surprised me given the size of
the OLPC's screen.

I assume its either treating the screen as lower resolution or drawing
the fonts and such very large.  Any Eric wizzes out there know how to
fix that?

JK


On Dec 23, 2007 7:55 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman < jeffpk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ahah!  The proper name is PyQt-qscintilla
>
> I have it installed... now to attempt to install eric3
>
>
> On Dec 23, 2007 7:53 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman < jeffpk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > got it thanks
> >
> > That indeed makes it possible to run idle.  Idle is nto exactly hat I
> > would call an IDE, more an imporved shell, but at least I got it that
> > far.
> >
> > I'd love to get Eric up and running but there don't appear to be
> > prebuilt binaries of QScintilla available.  At least that I could find
> > :/
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > ack !   that should be "yum" not "yun".
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Dec 23, 2007 5:04 PM, Charles Durrett < charles.durrett at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > >
> > > > as root in a terminal session enter
> > > >
> > > > yun install tkinter
> > > >
> > > > On Dec 23, 2007 4:15 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman < jeffpk at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Figured it was time for a new thread for this....
> > > > >
> > > > > Idle is actually included on the olpc in
/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib
> > > > >
> > > > > However trying to invoke idle.py gives this error...
> > > > >
> > > > > ** IDLE can't import Tkinter.  Your python may not be configured
for Tk.
> > > > >
> > > > > Question for those more familiar with python on linux, Is there
> > > > > something I can yum
> > > > > or otherwise download and install that would fix this?
> > > > >
> > > > > JK
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > ~~ Microsoft help desk says: reply hazy, ask again later. ~~

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