Ubuntu 19.04 ships with Python 3.7, but it doesn’t include Idle. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to install Idle for Python 3.7.
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Installing Python on Ubuntu Linux 19.04
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Installing Python on Ubuntu 19.04. Here’s the Ubuntu desktop. Right-clicking and Open in Terminal will allow a check of the Python versions installed to be made. Once again, with python --version, it’ll show that there’s no Python 2 version installed, and python3 --version to check the Python 3 version.
00:27 Now, this is up-to-date but it’s not complete. While Python is installed—and as you can see onscreen, is running—IDLE is not present.
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However, we get a clue from the system that shows that we need to install it. So that’s easily fixed with sudo apt-get install idle. Enter the password.
01:01 Confirm we want to install it.
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The software gets downloaded and installed automatically. You can launch it with the command idle, and you’re ready to program.
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