I am running Ubuntu 10.10, and I installed Python 3.2 today. The system is already running Python 2.6.
I typed idle3.2 in the terminal and it gave me:
IDLE can't import Tkinter. Your Python may not be configured for Tk.
So I searched on Stack Overflow (and in some other places) for a solution, I installed python-tk, I rechecked that I have tclsh on the system, but I still can't manage to open idle3.2.
Any input would be appreciated.
18 Answers
On OSX, this can be resolved with macports by installing the python tkinter package for your python version. In my case, with python 2.7, I ran on the terminal:
sudo port install py27-tkinterchange the "27" to your python version number.
2On Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install idleChoose one from
- idle
- idle3
- idle-python2.6
- idle-python2.7
- idle-python3.1
- idle-python3.2
for your python version.
The problem is caused by the version between python and idle not matching. U can check your python version by typing : python Then sudo aptget install the right idle version same with your python version
I ran into the same error message when installing python3.4 on Fedora 20. The problem was that tk-devel was not installed during the python configure/make. The explicit steps to do this correctly are
download and extract python3.4 from python.org
Find and install the right tkinter and tk-devel:
yum search tkinter
yum install python3-tkinter-3.3.2-17.fc20.x86_64
yum search tk-devel
yum install tk-devel.x86_64
AFTER these are onboard, cd into the python3.4 package directory and run the configure; make, make install process.
I spent too much time resolving this issue. Hopefully this post will help may others to a quick resolution.
PS stackoverflow is awesome. If google brought you to this article, spend some time and surf around the site.
1If you installed python-tk and the system is running python 2.6 then it is most likely that you installed Tkinter for python 2.6. Try installing python3-tk.
you need to install tk or tk-dev packages for ubuntu.
On my arch linux system I had the same problem easily solved by typing
yaourt tkinterand installing the first package community/python-pmw 2.0.1-2 [installed]
Type "idle-python2.6" in the terminal..it worked for me
2
