[Q] How to use IDLE in redhat

[Cliff Wells]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:14:15 -0600
"Young-Jin Lee" <ylee12 at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi, I'm new to redhat. I was using Python in windows and now I was trying
to
> move to Redhat.
> I thought it would be easy to use IDLE in redhat linux, but it turned out
to
> be a bit difficult.
> After posting a few questions on the tutor at python.org list, I came to
know
> that I should setup IDLE by
> "$ cd .../Tools/idle
> $ python2.2 ./setup.py".
> 
> When I tried the aboves, python asked me to specify the option and
command,
> but I have no idea what to do.
> Here is the message I got:
> usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
> or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2]
> or: setup.py --help-commands
> or: setup.py cmd --help.
> 
> I also tried "python2 ./setup.py idle", but it didn't work, either.

Try:

python2 ./setup.py build
python2 ./setup.py install

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