Can't Find Python IDLE

dudeman41465 · 03-13-2006, 06:47 AM

I've been on a long journey of trying different distros to find the one that's right for me. I've used Mandriva, Ubuntu, and quite a few others. I've wanted to try Debian but I'll save that for another PC and for when I have 16 CDs. Anyway, I've settled back on Fedora Core 4, and last time I had it I installed installed python's IDLE just fine with yum install idle . For some reason though, this time it says the package isn't available. It's the same CDs and I have all the updates, but IDLE isn't available now. Is there a specific repo I need to enable? I've tried enabling all of them that say development and all of the obvious stuff, I even have kdevelop installed with no problems. I just like IDLE because it checks for errors and gives me a place to test run programs a little more easily than keeping a command line open. Anybody know where IDLE went on me though?

reddazz · 03-13-2006, 06:56 AM

idle is part of the python-tools package.

dudeman41465 · 03-13-2006, 07:07 AM

Awesome, I got it. Thank you so much. In my CS class a lot of our homework is done in the interpreter. I must've just been remembering wrong what I did to get IDLE. Leftover memories from "urpmi idle" crossing with yum. Anyway, thanks again.

flebber · 08-20-2006, 07:55 AM

Where you able to ge this to run from the prompt. I have fedora 5 and I cannot get idle to run

reddazz · 08-20-2006, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flebber

Where you able to ge this to run from the prompt. I have fedora 5 and I cannot get idle to run

In a terminal, run "idle &". If that works fine, then create a menu (or desktop) entry because I don't Fedora Core does it automatically for you. The command for the entry would be /usr/bin/idle.

flebber · 08-21-2006, 02:59 AM

No it still doesn't go

Quote:

[flebber@localhost ~]$ idle
bash: idle: command not found
[flebber@localhost ~]$ /usr/bin/idle
bash: /usr/bin/idle: No such file or directory
[flebber@localhost ~]$ run "idle &"
bash: run: command not found
[flebber@localhost ~]$ idle &

reddazz · 08-21-2006, 03:58 AM

So it seems like you don't have python-tools installed. Whats the output when you run,

Code:

$rpm -qa | grep -i python

flebber · 08-21-2006, 07:27 AM

yes that was it just needed to install python-tools. Too easy sometimes.

Thanks