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I got a pretty confusing Problem:



I build a python program using tkinter. Then I dist-upgraded my ubuntu 13.10 (amd64) to ubuntu 14.04 LTS, now I tried to run my tkinter program. My compiler told me



ImportError: No module named tkinter


(The same with Tkinter or tk/Tk)
Then I tried to reinstall tkinter using pip:



$ pip install tkinter


Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement tkinter
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for tkinter


again the same with Tkinter, tkinter, tk and Tk



So what happened?
Have I got to run something like



$ pip update


(because tk is not anymore in the pip-repository)
But why is it not installed anymore on my pc?



Edit:
1. I do not have no root access
2. in the pip.log is



>

Downloading/unpacking tk Getting page
> https://pypi.python.org/simple/tk/ Could not fetch URL
> https://pypi.python.org/simple/tk/: 404 Client Error: Not Found Will
> skip URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/tk/ when looking for download
> links for tk Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/ URLs to
> search for versions for tk: * https://pypi.python.org/simple/tk/
> Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/tk/ Could not fetch URL
> https://pypi.python.org/simple/tk/: 404 Client Error: Not Found Will
> skip URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/tk/ when looking for download
> links for tk Could not find any downloads that satisfy the
> requirement tk


something pretty close happened when I tried To install something using apt on my RaspberryPi without running



$ apt-get update


for a few months



I'd be glad for some help.


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python-tk cannot be installed using pip.



As tk is TkInter (-> Interface to TK, which is written in C(++) ) you need to install the C(++) Library TK.



you cannot install this library using pip, as pip is designed to install (mainly)[1]pure python packages. By the way you would not have the sufficient rights to install the library. So you need to ask your superuser for help.



The only way to install it is using



sudo apt-get install python-tk # python2


or



sudo apt-get install python3-tk #python3


And last but not least you would have to use pip3 to install packages for python3.



It is the same as you cannot install freetype using pip.



Note: it is better to use python3 -m pip instead of pip3, as there might be multiple python3 installations on your machine (e.g. python3.4 and python3.5.1)



[1]: Actually pip is able to compile C/C++ Libraries, but it does not seem like it is able to install System-Libraries. Or one will create this package in future.


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