Ubuntu package "python3" does not include tkinter

[rusi]

On Apr 22, 4:18 pm, lcrocker <leedanielcroc... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 21, 11:36 pm, Rui Maciel <rui.mac... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > > It's only easy to install a package on Ubuntu if you know that you have
> > > to, and can somehow work out the name of the package.
>
> > No one actually has to install tkinter.  That's the whole point of providing
> > it as a separate package: only those who want to use it have to install it.
> > The rest of us don't.
>
> I'm a programmer, I installed Tkinter, and use it. I'd like to deploy
> programs
> written with it to others.  **Those** people know nothing about it,
> and
> **shouldn't have to**. I've given them a program in Python, they have
> Python,
> but it doesn't run, and doesn't give them a helpful error. They'll
> probably
> just blame me and move on.  Not every Python user is a programmer.  If
> I write
> a program in Java, any user with Java installed can run it.  As it
> stands,
> that's no true for Python.  That's not good PR for the cause.

On the whole agree -- except for the java part -- maybe you've not
heard of 'jar hell'?
On the whole easy-deployability without losing easy-programmability is
a major research issue.

See this for someone choosing C++ over Lisp
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.finance.ledger.general/1955