> On 15 May 2023, at 05:39, Thomas Passin <li...@tompassin.net> wrote: > > On 5/14/2023 11:08 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> On Mon, 15 May 2023 at 12:07, Thomas Passin <li...@tompassin.net> wrote: >>> Well, no, why would you assume that? I started to use Linux - in VMs - >>> because I had to make sure that my cross-platform java/jython Tomcat >>> program would work right on Linux. Why, for example, would I think to >>> install Idle from the package manager when it, or things like that, were >>> always in my experience installed with pip? For that matter, "sudo >>> apt-get install pip" won't install pip. You need to use a different >>> name, and it may or may not be different for different distros. >> If you EVER had to install something other than a Python package, you >> would have had to make use of the system package manager. You're >> right, there are multiple obvious ways to install Idle, but that >> doesn't mean that the package manager isn't one of them. > > Yes, after a while I came to realize that missing Python pieces might be > available from the package manager. That doesn't mean it's obvious, or easy > to discover just what names to use. And sometimes one has to add a new > external repository. Personally, I don't find it easy to scroll through > hundreds of lines in the synaptics search results looking for something whose > name I can only partly guess at. If I know the command line equivalent for a > search, I could do a grep and that would probably be more focused. But > trying to work with a dozen different distros because various clients might > use them - it's hard to keep details straight. > > Anyway, there's no point in trying to convince me that I could have > understood everything at the start that I may have learned later. I'm just > interested in passing on things I've learned along that way that a newcomer > to Python in Linux may not realize.
Being a Fedora user i needed to learn how to install missing pieces of pyrhon on ubuntu. We searches for: ubuntu install pip Ubuntu install idle Both provide lots of answers. Did your searches fail to turn up answers? Barry > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
