> from Windows XP, it's not clear to me how to accomplish a Python install > on Linux.
That depends on your distro. Each distribution has its own package management tool. eg. On RedHat its rpm(and there is a GUI tool too), on Debian its getappt or somesuch... Python should already be installed on most distros, but of course you may want a more recent version. > standing for Microsoft install). I've loaded the latest Fedora/Redhat > release on an old AMD machine. How do I install Python such that it shows > up as a selection under the Programming task bar with EMACS? No idea how to put it into Emacs automatically. I suspect that needs some editing of the .emacs file or somesuch. Some packages may do that for you but its beyond my outdated knowledge of Linux... I just run Linux, I don't tweak it very much. > I assume I have to do this under root, right? Not necessarily, but if you use another user you will sometimes find that you don't have access to the default fiolder locations. And even ifg you do only that user will be able to run the application. So root is usually best. HTH, Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
