Install IDLE in Linux

IDLE is a very nice and common tool for python programming. In windows, it comes with default python installation. But in Linux it doesn't come built in. So in Ubuntu I used Synaptic Package Manager to download/install IDLE. Fedora systems comes with Python but dont come with IDLE.. In fact if you search for a package or rpm named idle, you wont find that. IDLE is in python-tools package. So the following command (as root) will install IDLE in Fedora or other RedHat systems.

yum install python-tools

To download Python: http://python.org/download/

Enjoy your ride on Python !

Comments

azalea said…
In debian, including ubuntu, to install IDLE:
sudo apt-get install idle
March 15, 2008 at 8:36 AM
Aruni RC said…
but how to install IDLE3 in Ubuntu? I'm gettting unresolvable dependencies...
January 3, 2009 at 12:26 PM
kambohg said…
where is admin i wantr some help plz if u know paythin very well then plz help me i m new i want learn it but how main id is kambohg@gmail.com any 1 can teach me thanks
February 6, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Anonymous said…
Hi. In Ubuntu just try:

#apt-get install idle idle-python2.6

(Default IDLE version is IDLE3)
June 3, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Anonymous said…
Hi, there,
The menu bar of Python IDLE in Ubuntu 11.04 is so small that I can barely see the texts. Any ideas to fix this? Thanks.
May 30, 2011 at 5:05 PM
Anonymous said…
Hi there,
The menu bar of python IDLE in Ubuntu 11.04 is so small that I can barely see the menu texts. Any ideas to fix this? Thanks.
May 30, 2011 at 5:07 PM
Unknown said…
Thank you! It was driving me nuts that my newly installed Fedora 19 system didn't have IDLE and I wasn't sure where to look.
September 23, 2013 at 9:55 PM
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