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?
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 python3-tk on your machine(s).
(Works on Debian-derived distributions like for Ubuntu; refer to your package manager and package list on other distributions.)
apt-get install python3-tk at the time of this comment for ubuntu 15.04 –
Clapp apt-get install python3-tk –
Hibiscus sudo apt install -y python3-tk –
Grilled wish. I can't find the source tarball for tkinter. –
Malchus apt-get install python3-tk confirmed to work for Python 3.5 with Ubuntu 16.04. –
Almeta E: Unable to locate package python-tk did anyomne have this issue? –
Olympium sudo su –
Puppy sudo apt-get install python3.7-tk to make it work –
Graphophone Tcl/Tk DLL's and use tkinter as an alias. I face a similar problem and have managed to use anything but Tk with python as reported here. –
Gonta 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
sudo apt-get update first. In my 32-bit Linux Mint 18.3 system, Synaptic and apt-get seem to require that more often than I would have supposed... –
Arbela 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.
--with_tcltk_libs but this didn't help. –
Senhorita setup.py file is to be found in the source directory where you originally installed Python - it is where I found it. If you didn't delete it but forgot where this directory is, you can run a find ~ -type f -name setup.py command from anywhere your shell. –
Pustulant setup.py on my machine. Which one are you talking about? –
Telegraph sudo apt install libx11-dev –
Multifoliate _tkinter), as described in the OP. setup.py normally refers to a Python script provided with a third-party Python package - nothing to do with rebuilding Python itself. Aside from that, recompiling the system Python sounds... scary at best. It seems that "local install" here is meant to convey "separate Python built from source". In which case, rebuilding should instead look like another invocation of make and/or configure. –
Choice sudo ./configure --prefix=/home/mcadev --exec-prefix=/home/mcadev --with-tclConfig=/home/mcadev/tcl8.5.11/unix --with-tkConfig=/home/mcadev/tk8.6.13/unix, note the difference of --with-tclConfig and --with-tkConfig –
Monafo If you are using Python 3 it might be because you are typing Tkinter not tkinter
For Arch Linux users, it goes a bit like
sudo pacman -S tk
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
E: Unable to locate package python-tk did anyomne have this issue? –
Olympium 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 "Tcl/Tk" installation feature. After reinstalling, all works fine and I can import _tkinter and import Tkinter.
If you're using RHEL, CentOS, Oracle Linux, etc. You can use yum to install tkinter module
yum install tkinter
tkinter for python2 –
Paff sudo dnf install python3-tkinter –
Mutazilite For python 3.7 on ubuntu I had to use sudo apt-get install python3.7-tk to make it work
for python3 user, install python3-tk package by following command
sudo apt-get install python3-tk
tk-devel also needs to be installed in my case
yum install -y tkinter tk-devel
install these and rebuild python
Fedora release 25 (Twenty Five)
dnf install python3-tkinter
This worked for me.
Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt install python3-tk -y
Fedora:
sudo dnf install -y python3-tkinter
Arch:
sudo pacman -Syu tk --noconfirm
REHL/CentOS6/CentOS7:
sudo yum install -y python3-tkinter
OpenSUSE:
sudo zypper in -y python-tk
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).
E: Unable to locate package python3-tk did u have this? –
Olympium python3-tk exists on XUbuntu 16.04 package manager. –
Whetstone 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.
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.
>>>
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.
>>>import Tkinter
Now, just to check you can create an empty window using Tkinter.
>>>Tkinter.Tk()
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.
For Fedora >= 25 and python >= 3, we might need to include the dependencies for Tkinter
sudo dnf install python3-tkinter
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.
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.
Install python version 3.6+
and open you text editor
or ide
write sample code like this:
from tkinter import *
root = Tk()
root.title("Answer")
root.mainloop()
Even after you've successfully imported python3 and python3-tk, it still might not work. I changed the first line of my script from: #! /usr/bin/python to: #! /usr/bin/python3
It finally worked!
For Ubuntu users and Linux users in general, it's not a bad idea to read the tips I've found here:
0: Do NOT purge Python from your system otherwise it's very likely you go through hell to re-install the things you will miss, including the ubuntu-desktop.
1: Update your local software repository
sudo apt update
2: Install the stuff everybody needs:
sudo apt install software-properties-common
3: Add the Dead Snake to your repository list:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
4: Update the entire thing again because we installed stuff and added a new repo:
sudo apt update
5: Install the Python version you want:
sudo apt install python3.10
6: Check that the version you want was installed:
python3 --version
Finally, you might want to restart your PC.
You can simply install it by your package manager(pip). If you haven't installed pip yet you can download the latest version of it.
And to download tkinter
pip install tkinter
And if you are maybe using a few versions of python, you can install it in the specific version you are currently using. if it's 3.10, it is,
pip3.10 install tkinter
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