[SOLVED] Installing python doesn't give me any of the programs

samrob85 · 2017-07-23 20:36:46

I tried to install python using sudo pacman -S python as well as installing from the python website and neither gave me the IDLE program (or any of the other python programs) in my applications list.

What am I doing wrong?

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jasonwryan · 2017-07-23 20:39:29

Python is the language, not some sort of meta-package. Install the applications that you need.

loqs · 2017-07-23 20:39:38

Why would it?

samrob85 · 2017-07-23 20:42:44

loqs wrote:

Why would it?

When I install it on other operating systems from their website it comes bundled with the IDLE software and there is no mention of how to separately install it online

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Slithery · 2017-07-23 20:43:01

Installing python does install IDLE, it just doesn't ship with a .desktop file.

Either create your own or launch it from a terminal.

samrob85 · 2017-07-23 20:44:16

slithery wrote:

Installing python does install IDLE, it just doesn't ship with a .desktop file.
Either create your own or launch it from a terminal.

Thanks a lot, I didn't realise that

loqs · 2017-07-23 20:44:34

$ pacman -Qo idle
/usr/bin/idle is owned by python 3.6.1-1

jasonwryan · 2017-07-23 20:49:06

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

Trilby · 2017-07-23 20:57:21

Note that you will also need the optional dependency tk installed to use idle. However, I don't really see the point of idle in a *nix environment - in winows perhaps it makes sense, but not linux. It basically* just provides a terminal to run an interactive python session in ... you can run an interactive python session in any terminal.

* it also seems to provide a few menus for looking up some python-specific info ... but these don't seem so useful.

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