Tkinter error / not working

DivineSentry

import tkinter
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/divine/.pyenv/versions/3.8.1/lib/python3.8/tkinter/init.py", line 36, in <module>
import tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter'
import tkinter as tk
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/divine/.pyenv/versions/3.8.1/lib/python3.8/tkinter/init.py", line 36, in <module>
import tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter'

things i tried in order to trouble shoot :
sudo eopkg it -c system.devel
sudo eopkg install git gcc make zlib-devel bzip2-devel readline-devel sqlite3-devel openssl-devel tk-devel
i've also installed python3-tkinter & tk-devel, i've tried different things trying to get this to work with no sucess,
im coding a program and a requirement for it is to be coded on python version 3.8.1 so i needed to use pyenv

tomocafe

DivineSentry Installing packages with eopkg will only affect your system Python version.

Since you are using pyenv, you need to install tkinter for the virtual Python under /home/divine/.pyenv.

Make sure your pip (or pip3) corresponds to your python (or python3) executable.

which python
which pip

Then install tkinter using pip.

pip install tkinter

You can install as many modules as your program needs this way. It will only affect your pyenv Python and not the system (eopkg) Python.

DivineSentry

tomocafe i've tried your solution and tkinter isnt on the pypy
divine@dib ~ $ pip install tkinter
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tkinter (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tkinter
and both python3 and pip are running under pyenv as shown
divine@dib ~ $ which python

/home/divine/.pyenv/shims/python

and pip

divine@dib ~ $ which pip

/home/divine/.pyenv/shims/pip

furthermore :
divine@dib ~ $ python
Python 3.8.1 (default, Jan 27 2020, 22:14:42)
[GCC 9.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

tomocafe

Apologies, after researching more, tkinter is not a module you can install with pip. You had the right idea to start, even the virtual pythons need to use the system Python Tk C bindings.

Can you try recreating your virtualenv with the --system-site-packages flag? I believe that should make the virtual environment use the system python3-tk you installed with eopkg.

edit: Oh yeah, you’re using pyenv, not virtualenv. Did you delete the pyenv before installing the packages with eopkg and recreate the pyenv afterward? Google seems to show that helped some people, though lots of people seem to have trouble with pyenv and tkinter.

DivineSentry

tomocafe i'll research how to pass that flag onto pyenv as im directly using pyenv install 3.8.1, and not their virtualenv feature, will update you on what i can find out

DivineSentry

tomocafe okay so back with an update as per https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/issues/86 i did
export CONFIGURE_OPTS="--system-site-packages " and reading that same link i also did PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--system-site-packages" just in case and built python 3.8.1 using pyenv again after restarting just in case, i checked if that was indeed exported with the set command and then tried importing tkinter, i still get my original error, then i proceeded doing the one liner someone did on the same link PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--system-site-packages" pyenv install 3.8.1 and still get the original error, im going to check out virtualenv and see if maybe i can figure it out, i was using pyenv since its more user friendly but i guess its time to figure out virtualenv

kyrios

Mixing different versions of python3 will certainly not work.

im coding a program and a requirement for it is to be coded on python version 3.8.1
That's a weird requirement. I could understand a requirement saying the program must run on python 3.8 but must be written in 3.8.1 is a total nosense to me.

There are very few backward incompatibilities within the python 3.x versions meaning python 3.8.1 can run without any problem programs written in python 3.6 so unless you absolutely want to use a new feature introduced a very recent version of python or you need to use some libraries that don't support older python (which again is very unlikely since libraries maintainers pay attention to that kind of things), nothing prevents you from using a different version of python for coding.

DivineSentry

kyrios not trying to be rude but regardless i would still like an solution to my problem

kyrios

DivineSentry perhaps you can look for a docker image...