IDLEfork Installation Notes =========================== IDLEfork requires Python Version 2.2 or later. There are several distribution files (where xx is the subversion): IDLEfork-0.9xx.win32.exe This is a Windows installer which will install IDLEfork in ..../site-packages/idleforklib/ and place the idefork startup script at ..../scripts/idlefork. Rename this to idlefork.pyw and point your launcher icons at it. Installation is as idlefork to avoid conflict with the original Python IDLE. IDLEfork-0.9xx-1.noarch.rpm This is an rpm which is designed to install as idleforklib in the /usr/lib/python2.2 tree created by the Python2 rpm. It requires python2 and python2-tkinter rpms. It installs as idlefork to avoid conflict with Python IDLE. IDLEfork-0.9xx.tar.gz This is a distutils sdist (source) tarfile which can be used to make installations on platforms not supported by the above files. It remains configured to install as IDLE, not IDLEfork. Unpack in ..../Tools/, cd to the IDLEfork directory created, and to install in ....site-packages/idlelib. If you don't want to overwrite Python IDLE, it is also possible to simply run to test in the IDLEfork source directory without making an installation. In this case, IDLE will not be on your PATH unless you are in the source directory. Also, it is then advisable to remove any Python IDLE installation by removing ..../site-packages/idlelib so the two identically named packages don't conflict. See README.txt for more details on this version of IDLEfork.