[Tutor] Tkinter isn't working on Beagle Bone Black

Mats Wichmann mats at wichmann.us
Wed Nov 2 17:15:47 EDT 2022


On 11/1/22 19:56, Eryk Sun wrote:
> On 11/1/22, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> You need to install tkinter.
>> But I'd use the apt tool if possible. Pip is OK but I
>> always found the software update tools in Linux to be
>> simpler/safer.
> 
> tkinter is part of Python's standard library and has to be installed
> via the system package manager or, on Windows, by enabling the
> tkinter/IDLE component of the installer. There is no "tkinter" package
> on PyPI. The "tk" package is TensorKit, which is apparently a deep
> learning helper between Python and C++. It has nothing to do with the
> Tk GUI toolkit.

debian calls the package python3-tk





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