Tkinter Python may not be configured for Tk

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Today I wanted to start working with Tkinter  but I have some problems   Python 3 2  r32 88445  Mar 28 2011  04 14 07    GCC 4 4 5  on linux2 Type  help    copyright    credits  or  license  for more information   gt  gt  gt  from tkinter import   Traceback  most recent call last   File   lt stdin gt    line 1  in  lt module gt  File   usr local lib python3 2 tkinter   init   py   line 39  in  lt module gt  import  tkinter   If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk ImportError  No module named  tkinter   So how can I configure my Python 3 2 to work with Tkinter

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I think the most complete answer to this is the accepted answer found here:

How to get tkinter working with Ubuntu's default Python 2.7 install?

I figured it out after way too much time spent on this problem, so hopefully I can save someone else the hassle.

I found this old bug report deemed invalid that mentioned the exact problem I was having, I had Tkinter.py, but it couldn't find the module _tkinter: http://bugs.python.org/issue8555

I installed the tk-dev package with apt-get, and rebuilt Python using ./configure, make, and make install in the Python2.7.3 directory. And now my Python2.7 can import Tkinter, yay!

I'm a little miffed that the tk-dev package isn't mentioned at all in the Python installation documentation.... below is another helpful resource on missing modules in Python if, like me, someone should discover they are missing more than _tkinter.

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Had the same issue on Fedora with Python 2 7  Turns out some extra packages are required   sudo dnf install tk-devel tkinter   After installing the packages  this hello-world example seems to be working fine on Python 2 7     cat hello py from Tkinter import   root   Tk   w   Label root  text  Hello  world    w pack   root mainloop     python --version Python 2 7 8   python hello py   And through X11 forwarding  it looks like this     Note that in Python 3  the module name is lowercase  and other packages are probably required     from tkinter import

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Install tk-devel  or a similarly-named package  before building Python

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To get this to work with pyenv on Ubuntu 16 04 and 18 04  I had to     sudo apt-get install python-tk python3-tk tk-dev   Then install the version of Python I wanted     pyenv install 3 6 2   Then I could import tkinter just fine   import tkinter

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So appearantly many seems to have had this issue  me including  and I found the fault to be that Tkinter wasn t installed on my system when python was compiled    This post describes how to solve the problem by    Removing the virtual environment python distribution  install Tkinter with sudo apt-get install tk-dev  for deb  or sudo pacman -S tk  for arch manjaro  Then proceed to compile python again    This worked wonders for me

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Even after installing python-tk  python3-tk I was getting error your python is not configured for Tk  So I additionally installed tk8 6-dev Then I build my Python again  run following again  make  make install  When I did this I saw messages on screen that it is building  tkinter and related modules  Once that is done  I tried  import tkinter quot   and it worked

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Under Arch Manjaro just install the package tk   sudo pacman -S tk

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Oh I just have followed the solution Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams has suggest which is install tk-dev before building the python   Building the Python-3 6 1 from source on Ubuntu 16 04    There was pre-compiled objects and binaries I have had build yesterday though  I didn t clean up the objects and just build again on the same build path  And it works beautifully   sudo apt install tk-dev  On the python build path   No need to conduct  make clean     configure make sudo make install   That s it

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I encountered this issue on python 2 7 9  To fix it  I installed tk and tcl  and then rebuild python code and reinstall  and during configure  I set the path for tk and tcl explicitly  by     configure --with-tcltk-includes  -I usr include  --with-tcltk-libs  -L usr lib64 -ltcl8 5 -L usr lib64 -ltk8 5    Also  a whole article for python install process  Building Python from Source

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sudo apt-get install python3-tk

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You need to install tkinter for python3   On Fedora pip3 install tkinter --user returns Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement    so I have to command  dnf install python3-tkinter  This have solved my problem

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This symptom can also occur when a later version of python  2 7 13  for example  has been installed in  usr local bin  alongside of  the release python version  and then a subsequent operating system upgrade  say  Ubuntu 12 04 --  Ubuntu 14 04  fails to remove the updated python there   To fix that imcompatibility  one must  a  remove the updated version of python in  usr local bin   b  uninstall python-idle2 7  and  c  reinstall python-idle2 7

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To anyone using Windows and Windows Subsystem for Linux  make sure that when you run the python command from the command line  it s not accidentally running the python installation from WSL  This gave me quite a headache just now  A quick check you can do for this is just which  lt python command you re using gt  If that prints something like  usr bin python2 even though you re in powershell  that s probably what s going on

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If you re running on an AWS instance that is running Amazon Linux OS  the magic command to fix this for me was  sudo yum install tkinter   If you want to determine your Linux build  try cat  etc  release

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According to http   wiki python org moin TkInter       If it fails with  No module named  tkinter   your Python configuration needs to be modified to include this module  which is an extension module implemented in C   Do not edit Modules Setup  it is out of date   You may have to install Tcl and Tk  when using RPM  install the -devel RPMs as well  and or edit the setup py script to point to the right locations where Tcl Tk is installed  If you install Tcl Tk in the default locations  simply rerunning  make  should build the  tkinter extension

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