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I successfully installed python 3.8.3 on kali linux. However, i am unable to install idle3. I tried several methods suggested but none work. One of the methods I used was "sudo apt-get install idle3 " the error message it gives me is "E: Unable to locate package idle3". How can I resolve this?

Harsh Kamani
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IDLE uses tkinter and is typically installed only when tkinter is. On linux, the separate package is usually python-tk and at least one site claims that this is so on kali. (I searched kali linux python tkinter.) So try the following and if it does not work, look more on the kali-linux site.

sudo apt-get install python-tk
Terry Jan Reedy
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  1. I had to add a '3' to get it to work.
  2. sudo apt-get install python3-tk
  3. Then saw this answer:https://askubuntu.com/questions/1357060/e-unable-to-locate-package-idle3-in-ubuntu-18-04
  4. Don't forget to run sudo apt-get update
  5. Have to install the right version of Idle to match your version of Python. Check your version by typing python3 into cli.
  6. sudo apt install idle-python3.11 (mine is 3.11.2, just typed in 3.11 to get it to work, yours may be a different version).
  7. Probably need to run sudo apt-get update again.
  8. Ta-da, now Idle is showing up in my applications. What a ridiculous pita linux is. :D
Geoffk
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