idle command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix idle command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

idle: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: idle: command not found

In Ubuntu idle is provided by idle package.

idle is:

IDLE is an Integrated Development Environment for Python. IDLE is written using Tkinter and therefore quite platform-independent.

This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian’s default Python 3 version’s IDLE (currently v3.10).

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install idle

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install idle.

sudo apt -y install idle

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install idle

In this tutorial we learn how to fix idle command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.