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IDLE Fork Installation on Linux:
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Until the tarball is released, you must download a CVS copy. An excellent
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place for it is
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/usr/local/src/PythonX.X/Tools/idlefork, assuming that's where your Python
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source is located. Put the correct version in for X.X .
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# cd /usr/local/src/PythonX.X/Tools
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Now do the CVS login and checkout:
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# cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.idlefork.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/idlefork login
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Type an <enter> for the password.
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# cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.idlefork.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/idlefork \
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-d idlefork checkout idle
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The -d option to checkout puts the files in an idlefork directory, so you don't
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step on "official" idle.
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# cd idlefork
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# su to root
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# python setup.py install
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# echo "idle" > /usr/local/lib/pythonX.X/site-packages.pth
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This last is necessary so idle can find itself. I hope we can create/append
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this file via setup.py at some point, but it needs to be done manually now, and
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it only needs to be done once (unless you totally remove and reinstall python
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itself).
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# exit from root
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NOTE that the above procedure will install idlefork IDLE on top of any
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"official" IDLE that may be already installed. If you wish to avoid doing
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that, there is a patch file, coexist.patch, in the idlefork directory. If,
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_*before*_ you install idle, you run
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# patch -p0 < coexist.patch
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idlefork will be modified so that it installs as .../site-packages/fildlelib,
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idle as fidle, and idles as fidles. (If you previously installed without
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patching, remove the idlefork/build directory before running the install.)
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NOTE: You must then append "fidlelib" to site-packages.pth !
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Then "official" IDLE and idlefork IDLE will exist side by side for comparision.
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And if idlefork is temporarily broken :-(, well, you have your old IDLE ways.
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This is obviously an expedient development hack, but if popular, I imagine
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there could be a setup option.
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