[Tkinter-discuss] IDLE can't be opened

[Petr Tvrdik]

Hello,

I have tried:

cd ~
sudo rm -rf .idlerc
cd Desktop
/usr/local/bin/idle2.7

and I got:

MacBook-Tanya:Desktop Michal$ /usr/local/bin/idle2.7
-bash: /usr/local/bin/idle2.7: Permission denied

I have also reset ownership

sudo chown Michal /Users/Michal/

but IDLE still cannot be opened

please help if you can

thank you

petr


> On Jun 19, 2015, at 12:38 PM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> [Petr, please reply to the mailing list, not directly to me, so that others can contribute to or benefit from the discussion.  Thanks!]
> 
> On Jun 18, 2015, at 08:46, Petr Tvrdik <ptvrdik at genetics.utah.edu> wrote:
>> I have noticed that even inside my /usr/local/bin/ directory, idle2.7 or idle3.4 commands do not work
>> however, when I use ’sudo idle2.7’ or ’sudo idle3.4’ both work flawlessly with the new ActiveTcl 
>> so my problem seems to be more related to root privileges and unix folder structure perhaps
> 
> Are you by any chance trying to launch idle when you have changed your working directory to /usr/local/bin?  You shouldn't do that.
> 
> Try the following:
> 
> cd ~
> sudo rm -rf .idlerc
> cd Desktop
> /usr/local/bin/idle2.7
> 
> and see if that works.  You should never have to run idle undo sudo and you never should!
> 
> --
>  Ned Deily
>  nad at acm.org -- []
> 
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