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

[Alan Gauld]

On 01/11/2022 18:29, Matt Lyon wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm having trouble running tkinter on my beagle bone black. I'm using the
> BBB through debian. I'm using python3 and pip3 for commands.

Caveat: I have no idea what Beagle Bone Black is...

> I downloaded Tkinter with this command
> 
> pip3 install tk

Thats probably not tkinter, its probably Tk the underlying
Tcl/Tk library.

You need something like python3-tk or tkinter or somesuch
(I don't have a Linux box fired up at the moment!)

> Here's the list of libraries on my beaglebone.
> I'm not sure if I need to download another package or if I need to set up
> some link between my BBB and PC.Whenever I try to run a program with
> tkinter I get:
> 
> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter'

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.

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