[Tutor] No module named '_tkinter' ***solved***

[pierre dagenais]

On 13-12-09 03:14 AM, eryksun wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 2:36 PM, pierre dagenais <eq742 at ncf.ca> wrote:
>> I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and I've installed python 3.3.3 from the
>> tarball at http://python.org/ftp/python/3.3.3/Python-3.3.3.tar.xz
>>
>> Here is the error I get when trying to run tkinter.
>>
>> ImportError: No module named '_tkinter'
>>
>> I've tried installing python3-tk from the Ubuntu repository but it
>> doesn't help.
> 
> It looks like you didn't install the development dependencies before
> building. The build-dep for Lucid's 3.1 package should do the trick.
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get build-dep python3.1
> 
python3.1 is not available on precise pangolin, so used python3.2 instead.

> For good measure run the following, too:
> 
> sudo apt-get install build-essential \
>   libbz2-dev libdb-dev libexpat1-dev libffi-dev \
>   libgdbm-dev liblzma-dev libncursesw5-dev \
>   libreadline6-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev \
>   tk-dev zlib1g-dev
> 
A few of these were missing, installed now.

> Then do a `make clean` and rebuild.
> 
Don't know what a 'make clean' is. I skipped it and rebuilt, looks good
now. I can 'import tkinter' without error.


Thank you, much appreciated,

PierreD.