Correct way to install Thonny IDE in Fatdog?

[Neo_78]

I am trying o install the Thonny IDE for Python and MicroPython development:

https://thonny.org/

As the root user, I first tried the suggested installation script with curl -s https://thonny.org/installer-for-linux as suggested in the instructions:

https://github.com/thonny/thonny/wiki/Linux

However, this throws the following error:

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Can't offer alternatives as your system doesn't seem to have usable Python interpreter.

I then installed python3 from Gslapt, tried the script again, but get the same error.

I then tried the alternative installation method and downloaded the latest tar.gz version:

https://github.com/thonny/thonny/releas ... _64.tar.gz:

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tar -zxvf thonny-4.1.4-x86_64.tar.gz
> cd thonny
> ./install

This will create the Thonny icon in the menu and I can start the IDE. However, if I switch to a normal, non-root user, I am not able the start the IDE any longer and the menu item is broken.

Could you please guide me how to correctly install Thonny and make it available for all standard users?

Thank you!

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I then tried the alternative installation method and downloaded the latest tar.gz version:
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> cd thonny
./install

This will create the Thonny icon in the menu and I can start the IDE. However, if I switch to a normal, non-root user, I am not able the start the IDE any longer and the menu item is broken.

I don't know Thonny. I just read their alternative installation instructions https://github.com/thonny/thonny/wiki/L ... ion-method. They imply that you can either install as the current user to the apps folder in the user's home directory, or install as root to a given folder by specifying the folder path. That's what they say, perhaps not so explicitly, but the meaning is there.

It looks like you installed as the current user (root) to the apps folder in root's home directory (/root). So, is Thonny installed in /root/apps/thonny now? If so, no wonder a non-root user can't read/write files in root's home directory.

My guess is that you should reinstall Thonny to a folder accessible to all users by following the second example linked above. For instance -- they say -- to install thonny under /opt run sudo ./install /opt to get /opt/thonny. Optionally, append Thonny's binary folder to the PATH variable in /etc/profile. Add PATH=$PATH:ThePath, after the line that sets PATH in /etc/profile, where ThePath stands for the correct path of Thommy's binary folder. If you don't do the PATH thing, a non-root user should be able to start the program by typing the whole path to the Thonny program file.