Newbie: tkinter question

Luke Woodward m98law at ecs.ox.ac.uk
Wed Oct 10 10:24:34 EDT 2001


On 10 Oct 2001, Attila Pletyak wrote:

>   I am using Debian Linux 2.2, I've installed python from the deb
> packages. I would like to try out the possibilites of tkinter, but the
> module tkinter seems to be missing from my computer. Python is 1.5.2,
> and when I start it and type "from Tkinter import * " it says that it
> cannot find tkinter.

It sounds as if Tkinter isn't installed. Try entering the following
command when logged in as root:

  apt-get install python-tk

Tkinter seems to be in a separate package, and the above should find and
install it.

HTH,

Luke




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