Hi Huihang! On March 14 when I tried to install idle-python3 I got > W: Failed to fetch > https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python3.11/idle-python3.11_3.11.2-6%2bdeb12u4_all.deb > 404 Not Found [IP: 2a04:4e42:77::644 443]
On March 15 I tried again and was able to install idle-python 3.11.2-6+deb12u5 Then on March 16 I got the "Updated Debian 12: 12.10 released" message So I'm writing off the original error to trying to update my machine while a new release was coming out. Best Regards, Lee On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM Huihang Yan wrote: > > Hi Lee! > > I use Python a lot, and I've just installed a fresh Debian on one of my > boxes, so this might help? > > Python 3.11 seems to be automatically installed. I checked with command > 'aptitude why python3', which tells me that python3-apt depends python3, > where python3-reportbug depends python3-apt, where reportbug(1) depends > python3-reportbug. > > As a result, reportbug(1) depends python3. > > reportbug(1) is a command to report bugs in Debian, and should be installed > among with system. Therefore, as a result, python3 should be automatically > installed along with Debian, so we don't need to install it again. > > Next, with 'python3 --version' I get the version of the automatically > installed Python, which is Python 3.11.2. It's also 3.11, so it should fit > your need. > > Finally is idle. It seems that it's not automatically installed. With 'apt > search' I find that the package name should be 'idle', with version 3.11.2-1. > Therefore, we could install idle with command 'apt install idle'. > > Best wishes, > Huihang >
