Idle3 command not found: Terminal to Pi3

[SQLScott]

I am using PuTTY to terminal into my Pi3. I want to create and push some Python to it using IDLE. I am running Python 2.7.13. In my terminal, I executed the following to create a file on the Pi:

touch gpio_led.py

This command worked. I now want to open the file:

idle3 gpio_led.py

This does not work, returning the error: Idle3 command not found (see attached screenshot). I am simply following the instructions in the tutorial i am going through but have hit a wall at this point. What am I missing?

Thank you in advance for any help.

Scott

[klricks]

Idle3 is no longer installed by default.

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sudo apt install idle3

Then run from the local Desktop keyboard and screen not ssh.

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idle gpio_led.py

Note idle3 is for Python 3 code. You mentioned Python 2. Python 2 will go EOL soon.

idle is a GUI program so it can't be easily run via SSH.

[SQLScott]

Thanks klricks. Per your feedback, I installed idle3 (which succeeded), and then tried to execute the second command. I got a different error (see attached screenshot). I tried both on the local desktop/keyboard as well as via terminal, and got the same error on both.

[B.Goode]

As the man said:

idle is a GUI program so it can't be easily run via SSH.

Guessing you are accessing your RPi remotely via PuTTY on a Windows system?

You need an X-windows server (such as XMing) running under Windows, and you need to configure PuTTY to use X-windows forwarding.



Alternatively, enable the provided RealVNC server on Raspbian using the raspi-config utility, and install the RealVNC client under Windows.
Ref: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... /README.md