[Chicago] Python 3.5 in Ubuntu???

[Lewit, Douglas]

Thanks Phil.  You're right, it's a rabbit hole!  It's all good.  I don't
mind playing around with Python 3.5 in the command line.  I've noticed that
various software developers go to great lengths to create very
user-friendly graphical installers for Windows and Mac OS-X, but when it
comes to non-Mac versions of Unix, and also Linux, the installers are
definitely less user-friendly.  Something tells me that if Guido was
sitting here right now in front of my computer, he could figure it out, but
alas, that's not going to happen!   :-)

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 9:15 PM, Robare, Phillip (TEKSystems) <
proba at allstate.com> wrote:

> Your version of python was probably compiled without the support for
> Tkinter.  If Unix is used as a server you don’t need the graphic stuff.  I
> believe there is an additional package to apt-get install for Ubuntu that
> will provide idle and x-windows support.
>
>
>
> Learning about how Python is built is going down a rabbit hole which may
> eventually be rewarding but is sure to be quite confusing to start with.
> Check out the documentation of the sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig
> modules to start.
>
>
>
> Phil Robare
>
> TEK Systems / Allstate QR&A
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> 847-667-0431
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> D2W-703F
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>
> *From:* Chicago [mailto:chicago-bounces+proba=allstate.com at python.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Lewit, Douglas
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 21, 2016 5:28 PM
> *To:* The Chicago Python Users Group
> *Subject:* [Chicago] Python 3.5 in Ubuntu???
>
>
>
> Hey guys,
>
>
>
> I recently installed Python 3.5 Idle on my Mac.  Very simple
> installation.  The installation was not as easy or as painless on my Linux
> machine.  I followed the directions, and Python 3.5 ( or at least the
> command to launch it ) was successfully installed to /usr/bin.  BUT there
> were/are a couple of little issues.  Initially I was not able to launch
> Terminal!  ( Not good because I use Terminal quite a lot. )  I did some
> homework on the Ubuntu Forum and learned that Ubuntu's Terminal requires
> Python 3.4 as a dependency.  During the installation of Python 3.5, the
> symlink "python3" got changed to point to Python 3.5.  So I had to go back
> to /usr/bin ( in xterm, a Terminal alternative for just these emergencies )
> and rename my "python3" symlink so that it points to Python 3.4 and NOT
> Python 3.5.   With that done I was able to launch Terminal just like before.
>
>
>
> BUT.... idle3.5 does not work.  The command is there in usr/bin, but it
> fails with some warning message about how my version of Python is not
> configured to work with Tk or Tkinter.   ( However, my other Python
> versions do not have this problem, and for those versions IDLE runs without
> a glitch. )  Does anyone have a solution for this?  How can I configure my
> Python 3.5 to successfully import Tkinter and thus launch an IDLE shell?
> Any advice is appreciated.  I'm running Ubuntu 15.04 LTS.  Thanks!!!
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Douglas Lewit
>
>
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