How to pip or easy install tkinter on Windows

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My Idle is throwing errors that and says tkinter can t be imported  Is there a simple way to install tkinter via pip or easy install  There seem to be a lot of package names flying around for this    This and other assorted variations with tkinter-pypy aren t working  pip install python-tk  I m on Windows with Python 2 7 and I don t have apt-get or other system package managers

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Well I can see two solutions here   1  Follow the Docs-Tkinter install for Python  for Windows     Tkinter  and  since Python 3 1  ttk  are included with all standard Python distributions  It is important that you use a version of Python supporting Tk 8 5 or greater  and ttk  We recommend installing the  ActivePython  distribution from ActiveState  which includes everything you ll need   In your web browser  go to Activestate com  and follow along the links to download the Community Edition of ActivePython for Windows  Make sure you re downloading a 3 1 or newer version  not a 2 x version   Run the installer  and follow along  You ll end up with a fresh install of ActivePython  located in  e g  C  python32  From a Windows command prompt  or the Start Menu s  Run     command  you should then be able to run a Python shell via     C  python32 python   This should give you the Python command prompt  From the prompt  enter these two commands    gt  gt  gt  import tkinter  gt  gt  gt  tkinter  test     This should pop up a small window  the first line at the top of the window should say  This is Tcl Tk version 8 5   make sure it is not 8 4   2  Uninstall 64-bit Python and install 32 bit Python

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Had the same problem in Linux  This solved it   I m on Debian 9 derived Bunsen Helium        sudo apt-get install python3-tk

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I came here looking for an answer to this same question and none of the answers above actually answer the question at all  So after some investigation I found out  there is a package  for python 3 x at least   pip3 install pytk  The problem is  it is only the python part of the equation and doesn t install the tkinter libraries in your OS  so the answer is that you can t install it completely via pip https   tkdocs com tutorial install html Personally I find this very annoying as i m packaging a python application to be installed via pip that uses tkinter and I was looking for a way to have pip ensure that tkinter is installed and the answer is I can t I have to instruct users to install it if it s not installed already  a very poor experience for end users who should not need to know or care what tkinter is to use my application

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if your using python 3 4 1 just write this line from tkinter import   this will put  everything in the module into the default namespace of your program  in fact instead of referring to say a button like tkinter Button you just type Button

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When installing make sure that under Tcl Tk you select Will be installed on hard drive   If it is installing with a cross at the left then Tkinter will not be installed     The same goes for Python 3

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I had the similar problem with Win-8 and python-3 4 32 bit   I got it resolved by downloading same version from python org     Next step will be to hit the repair button and Install the Tk tkinter Package or Just hit the repair  Now  should get Python34 Lib tkinter Module present  The import tkinter should work

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In python  Tkinter was a default package  you can repair the installation and select Tcl Tk   When you run this  DDL should be installed like so

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I m posting as the top answer requotes the documentation which I didn t find  useful   tkinter comes packaged with python install on windows IFF you select it during the install window    The solution is to repair the installation  via uninstall GUI is fine   and select to install tk this time  You may need to point at or redownload the binary in this process  Downloading directly from activestate did not work for me    This is a common problem people have on windows as it s easy to not want to install TCL TK if you don t know what it is  but Matplotlib etc require it

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If you are using virtualenv  it is fine to install tkinter using sudo apt-get install python-tk python2   sudo apt-get install python3-tk python3   and and it will work fine in the virtual environment

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The Tkinter library is built-in with every Python installation  And since you are on Windows  I believe you installed Python through the binaries on their website   If so  Then most probably you are typing the command wrong  It should be   import Tkinter as tk   Note the capital T at the beginning of Tkinter   For Python 3   import tkinter as tk

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Inside cmd  run command pip install tk and Tkinter should install

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Easiest way to do this   cd C  Users  User  AppData Local Programs Python Python37 Scripts gt   pip install pythonds

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When you install python for Windows  use the standard option or install everything it asks  I got the error because I deselected tcl

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