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. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
