IDLEfork Installation Notes =========================== IDLEfork requires Python Version 2.2 or later. There are several distribution files (where xx is the subversion): IDLEfork-0.9xx.win32.exe This is a Windows installer which will install IDLEfork in ..../site-packages/idleforklib/ and place the idefork startup script at ..../scripts/idlefork. Rename this to idlefork.pyw and point your launcher icons at it. Installation is as idlefork to avoid conflict with the original Python IDLE. IDLEfork-0.9xx-1.noarch.rpm This is an rpm which is designed to install as idleforklib in the /usr/lib/python2.2 tree created by the Python2 rpm. It requires python2 and python2-tkinter rpms. It installs as idlefork to avoid conflict with Python IDLE. IDLEfork-0.9xx.tar.gz This is a distutils sdist (source) tarfile which can be used to make installations on platforms not supported by the above files. It is configured to install as IDLE, not IDLEfork. Unpack in ..../Tools/, cd to the IDLEfork directory created, and to install as IDLE. If you don't want to step on Python IDLE, it is also possible to simply run to test in the IDLEfork source directory without installation. In this case, IDLEfork will not be on your PATH unless you are in the source directory. See README.txt for more details on this version of IDLEfork.