[Tutor] IDLE in Linux

Magnus Lycka magnus@thinkware.se
Tue Oct 29 20:04:03 2002


At 19:11 2002-10-29 -0500, Gus Tabares wrote:
>   I was trying to find a doc on installing IDLE under Linux. Python.org 
> only seems to mention that it is in the /Tools/idle of the sourceball. I 
> assumed to run setup.py within that directory but nothing seems to happen 
> when I execute it (blinking cursor on newline). Are there any docs out 
> there I could be looking at? Thanks..

How do you run setup?

python setup.py install

is probably what you want.

BTW, the IDLE-fork version is better in my opinion.
http://idlefork.sourceforge.net/


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