Tkinter (related)~

[Cameron Simpson]

On 18May2023 12:06, Jack Dangler <tdldev at gmail.com> wrote:
>I thought the OP of the tkinter thread currently running may have 
>needed to install the tkinter package (since I had the same missing 
>component error message), so I tried to install the package on to my 
>Ubu laptop -
>
>pip install tkinter
>Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not 
>writeable
>ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tkinter 
>(from versions: none)
>ERROR: No matching distribution found for tkinter
>
>Is there an alternate path to installing this?

Usually tkinter ships with Python because it is part of the stdlib.

On some platforms eg Ubuntu Linux the stdlib doesn't come in completely 
unless you ask - a lot of stdlib packages are apt things you need to ask 
for. On my Ubunut here tkinter comes from python3-tk. So:

     $ sudo apt-get install python3-tk

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>