Missing IDLE in Python install on Linux?

[Oliver Vecernik]

Zorba schrieb:
> I posted this once, but it didn't show up for some reason.
> 
> I'm new to Linux and to using Python on Linux. I did my first install
> yesterday and was dismayed to discover that Idle had not been
> installed. Why would this happen (there are no warnings of this in the
> configure log) and what can I do about it?

Which system are you using? My Debian box has it e.g.:

ov at p500:~/ablage/pgsql/mms$ dpkg -S idle.py
idle-python2.1: /usr/lib/idle-python2.1/idle.py

HTH
Oliver