Missing IDLE in Python install on Linux?

[Zorba]

Actually, my first post did show up - "OK, another one on me" (bad
title) and people have been posting helpful responses there.

FYI, my Linux is SuSE, but I chose not to do the default SuSE install
of Python.

Oliver Vecernik <vecernik at aon.at> wrote in message news:<3E4B9EAA.7070708 at aon.at>...
> 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