Tkinter (related)~

[Jack Dangler]

On 5/18/23 21:11, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2023-05-19, Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:
>> 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
> And in general, on Linux systems, you'll be better off in the long run
> if you use the distro's package manager to install Python packages
> instead of using pip. If there is no distro package, you're usually
> also better off using 'pip install --user' so that pip isn't messing
> about with directories that are normally managed by the distro's
> package manager.
>
> When I do have to resort to using pip in install something, I always
> do a --dry-run first and make a note of any dependancies that pip is
> going to try to install -- so I can install those using the package
> manager if possible.
>
> --
> Grant
>
Grant

Great suggestion! I didn't know that --dry-run was available... I'll 
have to look at that arg...

Jack