Bernard, Just replying so other adventurers can find it on Gooja. I installed the Python demo-scripts package and the Tools directory just popped up with Idle in it. thx Bernard Yue <bernie at 3captus.com> wrote in message news:3CA98091.4B8C83A2 at 3captus.com... > > Have you installed python-tk? That maybe the reason. IDLE needs > Tkinter. >