Ubuntu – Where is IDLE (18.04)

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My understanding was that IDLE comes built in with Python, which is installed with Ubuntu. I can't find IDLE in Applications. I can't find it to install in Ubuntu Software. Where is it? Not interested in workarounds. Want to know why it isn't there. Ubuntu 18.04

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Did you try installing it from the command line directly, as this other almost identical question/answer pair instruct you on how to do?

You can install IDLE for Python 3 with

sudo apt install idle

... or with ...

sudo apt install idle3

There is no Python2 version of IDLE in Ubuntu 18.04, however.

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You can install IDLE for Python 3 by installing the idle3 package in the official Ubuntu repositories:

sudo apt-get install idle3

For Python 2, replace idle3 with idle.

Ubuntu – How to install Python 3.5.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Python 3.5.1 is installed on Ubuntu 16.04 by default. You can verify that by running the command python3 --version in a terminal.

Now, IDLE for Python 3 is in the package idle3 and part of the default Python distribution but it's not installed on Ubuntu by default. You can do so with Software Center or your favourite package manager. On the command-line you can run:

sudo apt-get install idle3

If that gives you an error as you say in the comments, please edit your question with the "edit" link below it to include the error messages verbatim (and send me a message in the comments to notify me of the change), or ask a new question with the same information.

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