[Tutor] IDLE in Linux
Gus Tabares
gus.tabares@verizon.net
Wed Oct 30 06:18:01 2002
Magnus Lycka wrote:
> 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/
>
>
Worked, thanks. I will check out IDLE-fork while I'm at it. Thanks again
Gus