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Shell asks me to install IDLE despite it being already installed

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I executed this command to open a .py file in idle terminal :

idle python_file.py

Shell displayed the following message in response :

The program 'idle' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:

sudo apt-get install idle

I have already installed idle and infact used the same to create python_file.py. Why does shell ask me to install it again? Using Ubuntu 13.10 if it helps.

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answered 2 Years ago cheeturage · Accepted Answer

Check your /usr/bin directory. On my machine at least, IDLE is installed under /usr/bin/idle-python2.7 and /usr/bin/python3.2, so I would open the file using:

idle-python3.2 python_file.py