I’ve been trying Ununtu and Mint lately. I’m running them from the USB to try. I can’t get Python to run at all. I’ve checked the command line and it shows the version that comes with it. I’ve downloaded IDLE from Python.com and PyCharm. I’ve extracted them to the USB and I can’t get any of the three to run. I get various errors from can’t be found to not being authorized. When I search for the built in Python, it can’t be found. I don’t have a clue what I’m doing wrong. Is it because I’m running it from the USB? Because Python is on the USB? Where is the built in one located? I did get Spyder to load once, but there was no way to run it. I have Spyder on the laptop and it has a “run” button and an option if you right click on the program. This one didn’t have any of that.
Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
It would help if you could post the "
exact" error message you are referring to.
Also, pick
one distro (either Mint or Ubuntu) and troubleshoot it.
When you say that you cannot get Python to run "at all" - do you mean the Python program or a Python script or an application written in Python or Python in the Idle app or 'all-of-the-above'?
When in Linux Mint you should be able to start a Terminal and at the prompt simply type
or
and Python will start. You can see which version has started. That is Python running on the system. The three 'chevrons' or 'angle brackets' is the Python prompt. You don't
have to use Idle but perhaps that does make it easier to write a program.
I do not know exactly what is on the USB but I cannot imagine why the Python included in a Live .iso would have to run with 'root' privileges.