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 <n...@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 <ptvr...@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 > n...@acm.org -- [] > > > _______________________________________________ > Tkinter-discuss mailing list > Tkinter-discuss@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss