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I'm having a bit of trouble trying to install Tkinter on a Linux system without having root privileges. According to the second answer to this question: Install tkinter for Python there is a way, and it involves downloading the source of Tkinter and TCL and then running their install routines in custon directories created one level below the home directory. I did that and everything except for the last step where it says run setup.py build and setup.py install. I can't find these files anywhere, an can't build them either. Does anyone know what the lasts tep of this routine is, and could possibly expound upon it? Thanks.

For reference: the sequence of instructions for installing the sources once you have the tar files is the follwing:

cd ~/tcl8.5.11/unix
./configure --prefix=/home/<user> --exec-prefix=/home/<user>
make
make install

cd ~/tk8.5.11/unix
./configure --prefix=/home/<user> --exec-prefix=/home/<user> --with-tcl=/home/<user>/tcl8.5.11/unix
make
make install
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don't have sufficient reputation points to comment, but isn't this question Install Tkinter in linux similar to yours??.

To summarize, if you are sure that Tkinter is not already installed (and not that your python path is not correctly configured), I would suggest you to use some tools like easy_install and then do 

easy_install --prefix=<local-dir-in-python-path> python-tk

generally I use ~/.local/ as the prefix.

easy_install can be installed by installing setuptools

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    I tried something similar to that, but it keeps telling me that the library python-tk isn't in the package list. The only things it does have are several tkinter upgrades that need tkinter installed already in order to run. And nothing in regards to tcl. – AJZec1 Jun 03 '13 at 17:28
  • hmm I see... well maybe you can use ``easy_install`` on the source you downloaded (that way it won't tell you that it cannot find ``python-tk`` and will do the necessary cycle of make/build) – goofd Jun 03 '13 at 18:31
  • Okay, I was confused as to what source I downloaded for each, but I'll give it a try with some experimentation. – AJZec1 Jun 03 '13 at 19:36