Python, FreeBSD, idle

[Hal Weaver]

Martin Franklin wrote:
> 
> dsavitsk wrote:
> 
> > i installed a new FBSD 4.4 system.  i installed Python 2.1.1 from the
> > packages menu.  i then installed idle (0.5) from the ports collection.
> > this
> > inturn installed python 1.5.2.  from a terminal when i type "python" 1.5.2
> > is started.  is there a trick to linking idle to 2.1.1, and easily
> > resetting it (2.1.1) as the default?
> >
> > or better yet, i notice that idle is up to 0.8 on windows ... has anyone
> > done any work to update the FreeBSD port?
> >
> > doug
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Doug,
> 
> idle is in the source distribution under the Tools/idle directory.  Its
> allways a good idea to have acopy of the python source around, plus it has
> lots of extra goodies.....
> 
> ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/2.1.1/Python-2.1.1.tgz   or
> 
> http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.1.1/Python-2.1.1.tgz
> 
> Martin

I recently installed Python 2.1 on the FreeBSD 4.3 Stable distribution. 
In order to use idle I had to install py-tkinter from the X11-toolkits
folder in ports.

Hal