unable to start IDLE

frankjeman · November 11, 2010, 12:37pm

Hello, I recently installed python-idle in order to have an IDE for python. However, I cannot find it anywhere in the menu, and also through the terminal it is not recognized. Does anyone know what I have to do?

Thanks in advance, Frank

martin_helm · November 11, 2010, 1:42pm

frankjeman wrote:

>
> Hello, I recently installed python-idle in order to have an IDE for
> python. However, I cannot find it anywhere in the menu, and also through
> the terminal it is not recognized. Does anyone know what I have to do?
>
>
> Thanks in advance, Frank
>
>
Open a terminal and type

idle

what happens when you do that (error message)?

frankjeman · November 11, 2010, 2:20pm

no error message it starts up perfectly (i was trying to continuously open it typing python-idle.) Is there anyway to get an icon in my menu?

Thanks, Frank

martin_helm · November 11, 2010, 2:40pm

That depends on the desktop environment you use. The way to create menu entries/desktop symbols differs.
Are you using gnome or kde or some other DE?

frankjeman · November 11, 2010, 3:21pm

I am using Gnome…

grtz, Frank

frankjeman · November 11, 2010, 3:37pm

I already got it to work using Control Panel - Main menu (only thing I have to do now is search for a nice svg icon.)

Thanks a lot, Frank

martin_helm · November 11, 2010, 6:19pm

Sorry that I could not answer earlier (was away for work) but glad you found
the way to create the way to create your starter.
Maybe you can use a icon from the python homepage or something from
wikipedia
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Python.svg