On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > On 03Jan2017 17:07, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> >> Cameron Simpson wrote: >>> >>> On 02Jan2017 17:21, MR ZenWiz <mrzen...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm trying to install python 4.6 on my Xubuntu 16.04 desktop, [...] >>>> INFO: Can't locate Tcl/Tk libs and/or headers >>> >>> You lack the tk development libraries and/or headers. Try (as root): >>> apt-get install tk-dev > > [...] >>> >>> You need a bunch of other devleopment libraries too. [...] >> >> >> A nice shortcut for this is to install the build dependencies of the >> Python >> 3 used by your distribution: >> >> $ sudo apt-get build-dep python3.x >> >> Replace x with the actual minor version present on your system. > > > I Did Not Know This! > > Yes, that sounds far more reliable than my guess-the-names approach. > > Thank you, >
If that had worked, I'd be quite pleased, but as I posted earlier, apgt-get claims not to know what to do with that. I tried deleting all the ~/.local/python3* files and also all python files in /etc and /usr, then reinstalled all the (previously) system installed version via synaptic, and python3.5 seems to work as a command, but idle3 does not: admar@marbase:~ $ which idle3 /usr/local/bin/idle3 admar@marbase:~ $ which idle3.5 /usr/local/bin/idle3.5 admar@marbase:~ $ which python3 /usr/bin/python3 admar@marbase:~ $ which python3.5 /usr/bin/python3.5 admar@marbase:~ $ idle3 bash: /usr/local/bin/idle3: /usr/local/bin/python3.5: bad interpreter: No such file or directory admar@marbase:~ $ idle3.5 bash: /usr/local/bin/idle3.5: /usr/local/bin/python3.5: bad interpreter: No such file or directory It appears that while python is installed in /usr/bin, idle is in /usr/local/bin and expects the python interpreter to be also under /usr/local, which does not seem to be the default. I created a symlink 'ln -s /usr/bin/python3.5 /usr/local/bin/python3.5' and now idle comes up. While this works, it is not at all intuitive (and I haven't exercised it to see how robust this is). What would make the idle want something that isn't there without such hackery? Thanks. MR _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
