OK, another one on me - when installing on Linux, where did IDLE go?!

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Wed Feb 12 11:54:20 EST 2003


In article <24b125ce.0302120834.48aef86d at posting.google.com>, Zorba wrote:

> Once again I am used to running Python under Windows, and know next to
> nothing about my new toy, Linux.
> 
> I went ahead and did the 'make install' for Python, despite numerous
> warnings that this .h & that .h were missing from my slick new SuSE
> 8.1 workstation - and a very cursory check reveals I can now run
> Python from the shell -

It doesn't have anything to do with Idle, and perhaps I'm
pointing out the obvious, but many Linux distros come with
Python already installed.  You might want to verify whether
you're running the pre-installed Python or the one you just
built.

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