Install tkinter for Python

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I am trying to import Tkinter  However  I get an error stating that Tkinter has not been installed   ImportError  No module named  tkinter  please install the python-tk package   I could probably install it using synaptic manager  can I    however  I would have to install it on every machine I program on  Would it be possible to add the Tkinter library into my workspace and reference it from there

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you will need the package and its dependencies   since you mentioned synaptic  you must be using a Debian based system   one way to get what you need   sudo apt-get install python-tk

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Tkinter is a GUI module for python  you can use it to make GUI based applications in python  Tkinter provides several GUI widgets like buttons menu  canvas text frame label etc  to develop desktop applications Though Tkinter is very popular and is included with windows  macosx install of python  There are also alternative choices like pyQt  wxPython      In this tutorial we will see how to install it on linux and use it with an example    First  check if you have python installed and also check its version  Open up your terminal and type python  if its installed then it will show information like version  help    check your version  mine is python 2 7 9   aman vostro    python Python 2 7 9  default  Apr  2 2015  15 33 21   GCC 4 9 2  on linux2 Type  help    copyright    credits  or  license  for more information   If you don t have python then install it sudo apt-get install python  If you want to install python 3 then enter the following  If you are a newbie  I would recommend python 2 instead of python 3  Python 2 is still very popular and many apps are made on it  On ubuntu python2 is still the default sudo apt-get install python3  Finally  Install Tkinter  sudo apt-get install python-tk   for python 3  sudo apt-get install python3-tk   How to Use it  Now  lets check if Tkinter is working well with this little example  open your terminal and enter into your python shell  python  for python3 python3  if python was installed correctly you will get a     prompt   aman vostro    python  Python 2 7 9  default  Apr  2 2015  15 33 21   GCC 4 9 2  on linux2  Type  help    copyright    credits  or  license  for more information   gt  gt  gt    Now import Tkinter module  it wont show any error if it got imported correctly  NOTE  Make sure you type Tkinter  not tkinter  in python2 and tkinter  not Tkinter  in python3    gt  gt  gt import Tkinter   Now  just to check you can create an empty window using Tkinter     gt  gt  gt Tkinter Tk

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For Fedora    25 and python    3  we might need to include the dependencies for Tkinter  sudo dnf install python3-tkinter

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It is not very easy to install Tkinter locally to use with system-provided Python  You may build it from sources  but this is usually not the best idea with a binary package-based distro you re apparently running   It s safer to apt-get install python-tk on your machine s    Works on Debian-derived distributions like for Ubuntu  refer to your package manager and package list on other distributions

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If you have Python 3 7 2 you don t need to install anything   just type exactly   from tkinter import

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Use ntk for your desktop application  which work on top of tkinter to give you more functional and good looking ui in less codding  install ntk by pip install ntk proper Documentation in here  ntk readthedocs io Happy codding

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There is  tkinter and Tkinter - both work on Py 3 x  But to be safe- Download Loopy and change your python root directory if you re using an IDE like PyCharms  to Loopy s installation directory  You ll get this library and many more

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The situation on macOS is still a bit complicated  but do-able   Python org strongly suggest downloading tkinter from ActiveState  but you should read their license first  hint  don t redistribute or want Support    When the download is opened OS X 10 11 rejected it because it couldn t find my receipt   ActiveTcl-8 6 pkg can   t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer    I followed an OSXDaily fix from 2012 which suggested allowing from anywhere  But OS X has now added an  Open Anyway  option to allow  e g   Active-Tcl as a once off  and the  Anywhere  option has gained a timeout

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For python 3 7 on ubuntu I had to use sudo apt-get install python3 7-tk to make it work

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tk-devel also needs to be installed in my case     yum install -y tkinter tk-devel   install these and rebuild python

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If  like me  you don t have root privileges on your network because of your wonderful friends in I S   and you are working in a local install you may have some problems with the above approaches   I spent ages on Google - but in the end  it s easy    Download the tcl and tk from http   www tcl tk software tcltk download html and install them locally too    To install locally on Linux  I did it to my home directory   extract the  tar gz files for tcl and tk   Then open up the readme files inside the   unix directory   I ran  cd   tcl8 5 11 unix   configure --prefix  home cnel711 --exec-prefix  home cnel711 make make install  cd   tk8 5 11 unix   configure --prefix  home cnel711 --exec-prefix  home cnel711 --with-tcl  home cnel711 tcl8 5 11 unix make make install   It may seem a pain  but the files are tiny and installation is very fast   Then re-run python setup py build and python setup py install in your python installation directory - and it should work  It worked for me - and I can now import Tkinter etc to my heart s content - yipidy-yay  An entire afternoon spent on this - hope this note saves others from the pain

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I think you have to install the tkinter onto your code repository directory  For liunx  Ubuntu or debian   open the terminal  Install the tkinter package by running this command on the terminal  sudo apt-get install python-tk   After installing the python-tk package on the terminal  create a new python file  Call it filename py  On the first line of the filename py  import tkinter into the python file  import tkinter   To create a tkinter with different fields  you can use this tutorial  https   www delftstack com tutorial tkinter-tutorial  The documentation of tkinter can be found here  https   docs python org 3 7 library tkinter html Hope that helps  Do ask us if you are still stuck  Remember to identify what you need in the GUI on tkinter before implementing it  Drawing wireframes of how the GUI will look like will help in coding the Tkinter GUI

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If you are using Python 3 it might be because you are typing Tkinter not tkinter

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For Arch Linux users  it goes a bit like  sudo pacman -S tk

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for python3 user  install python3-tk package by following command  sudo apt-get install python3-tk

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For Python 2 7  As it says here   You don t need to download Tkinter - it s an integral part of all Python distributions  except binary distributions for platforms that don t support Tcl Tk    In my case  on Windows  what helped was reinstalling the Python distribution  A long time ago  I had unchecked the  quot Tcl Tk quot  installation feature  After reinstalling  all works fine and I can import  tkinter and import Tkinter

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Install python version 3 6  and open you text editor or ide write sample code like this  from tkinter import    root   Tk   root title  quot Answer quot    root mainloop

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Fedora release 25  Twenty Five   dnf install python3-tkinter   This worked for me

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If you re using RHEL  CentOS  Oracle Linux  etc  You can use yum to install tkinter module  yum install tkinter

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Actually  you just need to use the following to install the tkinter for python3   sudo apt-get install python3-tk   In addition  for Fedora users  use the following command   sudo dnf install python3-tkinter

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You only need to import it  import tkinter as tk  then you will be use the phrase tk  which is shorter and easier  Also  I prefer using messagebox too  from tkinter import messagebox as msgbx  Here s some ways you will be able to use it    make a new window window   tk Tk      show popup msgbx showinfo  quot title quot    quot This is a text quot

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If you re using Python 3 then you must install as follows   sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python3-tk   Tkinter for Python 2  python-tk  is different from Python 3 s  python3-tk

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