Can't install thonny on Windows XP

[Pat Hillson]

The instructions are to enter the following in an cmd window:

C:\Python34\Scripts\pip install thonnyapp

I get the following message:

  Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connec

tion broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', ConnectionRefusedError(1006

1, 'No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it',

 None, 10061, None))': /simple/thonnyapp/

  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement thonnyapp (from versio

ns: )

No matching distribution found for thonnyapp

I also tried using easy_install thonnyapp.  I tried within the script app and from the C drive.

Can anyone help?

Thanks for your time.

[Aivar Annamaa]

Hi!

Can you install any other pip package? Maybe you need to use a proxy? (https://www.internalpointers.com/post/install-python-modules-pip-behind-proxy)

Another issue -- it now occurred to me that the instructions for installing Thonny for XP are not adequate anymore. I guess when you get your network issues straight, thonnyapp will try to install latest Thonny (3.0.8 at this writing), but Thonny 3 needs Python 3.5 and therefore can't be used on XP. 

In order to install Thonny 2, you should first pip install thonny==2.1.21 and after this pip install thonnyapp. (actually it should also work when you install thonnyapp first, but in this case it would install thonny 3 only to replace it with thonny 2 later).

best regards,
Aivar

[Pat Hillson]

[Pat Hillson]

Thanks for your quick response.  This still does not work for me.  

You asked if I had ever used pip.  I have not since I downloaded 3.4.  I decided to see if pip would work for another package.  It did not.  I can use pip under 3.3.

So, perhaps I have a problem with 3.3 and 3.4 on the same machine.  I will do further researsh.  The problem is not with your package or instructions.

Again, thanks for your help.

Pat