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configure tkinter for python3.4.2

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I recently met a problem while installing the newest python3.X.

Installed it using the Python-3.4.2.tar.xz package from python.org
After, the intallation I tried importing the tkinter module but didn't succeed.

The output of import tkinter was:



>>> import tkinter

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "", line 1, in 

  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/tkinter/__init__.py", line 38, in 

    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk

ImportError: No module named '_tkinter'

I also tried following solutions:

first,

second,

third,

fourth and

fifth

but none of them helped.

While trying these solutions, if noticed that the error says:

import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk

then i googled about it and found this.

Reading the Checking your Tkinter support section, the Step 1 failed and was stuck in this line

If you install Tcl/Tk in the default locations, simply rerunning "make" should build the _tkinter extension.

Regarding above line, my question is:

Where to find a make file to run a make command on ?

And, how do I configure the tkinter so that Python3.4.2 accepts it ?

EDIT:

I forgot to mention but import tkinter do works for the default installation (Python-3.4.0) of the Python in Ubuntu 14.04.1

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answered 2 Years ago ranquctive · Accepted Answer

In order to build python3.4.2 from source with the _tkinter module you need to install the following build dependency:

sudo apt-get install tk8.6-dev

Then all you have to do is running make again to add _tkinter support as the setup.py file will automatically detect the tk/tcl headers and create the module:

~/Downloads/Python-3.4.2$ make

running build

running build_ext

building '_tkinter' extension

gcc -pthread -fPIC -Wno-unused-result -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror=declaration-after-statement -DWITH_APPINIT=1 -I/usr/include/tcl8.6 -I/usr/X11/include -I./Include -I. -IInclude -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -I/usr/local/include -I/home/sylvain/Downloads/Python-3.4.2/Include -I/home/sylvain/Downloads/Python-3.4.2 -c /home/sylvain/Downloads/Python-3.4.2/Modules/_tkinter.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.4/home/sylvain/Downloads/Python-3.4.2/Modules/_tkinter.o

gcc -pthread -fPIC -Wno-unused-result -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror=declaration-after-statement -DWITH_APPINIT=1 -I/usr/include/tcl8.6 -I/usr/X11/include -I./Include -I. -IInclude -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -I/usr/local/include -I/home/sylvain/Downloads/Python-3.4.2/Include -I/home/sylvain/Downloads/Python-3.4.2 -c /home/sylvain/Downloads/Python-3.4.2/Modules/tkappinit.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.4/home/sylvain/Downloads/Python-3.4.2/Modules/tkappinit.o

gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.4/home/sylvain/Downloads/Python-3.4.2/Modules/_tkinter.o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.4/home/sylvain/Downloads/Python-3.4.2/Modules/tkappinit.o -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -L/usr/local/lib -ltk8.6 -ltcl8.6 -lX11 -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/_tkinter.cpython-34m.so



Python build finished successfully!

The necessary bits to build these optional modules were not found:

_bz2                  _dbm                  _gdbm              

_lzma                 _sqlite3                                 

To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.

[...]

Now you can import tkinter in python3.4.2:

~/Downloads/Python-3.4.2$ ./python 

Python 3.4.2 (default, Oct 30 2014, 11:34:17) 

[GCC 4.8.2] on linux

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> import tkinter

>>>

Original answer:

Unless you really need python3.4.2, I would just use the default python3 version on 14.04 (3.4.0)

Then all you have to do is installaling the following packages:

sudo apt-get install python3-tk tk

And start the python interpreter this way:

/usr/bin/python3

Otherwise you'll always get the version that you installed in /usr/local (3.4.2).

Importing tk in python3 should work now:

$ python3

Python 3.4.0 (default, Apr 11 2014, 13:05:11) 

[GCC 4.8.2] on linux

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> import tkinter

>>>