[Tutor] Query re: IDLE & Slackware 9.0

Todd Stephens tbstep@tampabay.rr.com
Tue Jun 3 20:38:01 2003


On Tuesday 03 June 2003 03:22 pm, Tireseas wrote:

> Hello Pythonites
>
> I am wanting to use Idle on Slackware 9.0 but cannot seem to call it up
> using the command line, and there aren't any menu items for it. Nor can I
> seem to find it buried within the Python directory. I was under the
> impression that Iddle came as standard issue with Python releases. Has
> anyone else any experience with this and if so, how did they work it
> through??
>

Looks to me like the default python installation in Slack 9 leaves it out.  A 
quick 'locate idle' turns up only the following:

/usr/doc/python-2.2.2/html/lib/idle.html

I can't find anything in /usr/lib/python2.2/ either.

-- 
Todd Stephens