How can I install tkinter for Python on Mac?

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So I posted this error on a Facebook group, they said I should get pip. I installed pip, when I am wanting to install tkinter it's giving me error:

I used this command first :

sudo pip install tkinter

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ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tkinter (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tkinter

You can't install tkinter with pip. Whoever told you that you could is wrong. — Bryan Oakley, Apr 14 '20 at 22:29

subtleseeker · Accepted Answer · 2022-01-11T13:11:10.797

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After a day of headache, this worked for me:

$ brew install python-tk

edited Jan 11 '22 at 13:11

answered May 10 '21 at 06:23

subtleseeker

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`pip install tk` won't work for me, but `brew install python-tk` did. – the paul Jun 11 '21 at 15:32
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pip install tk will install TensorKit, not tkinter. – Terry Blanchard Jan 10 '22 at 21:48
You are the man! – Shivam Feb 04 '22 at 09:30

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 14 '20 at 22:23

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tkinter is part of the standard library. You don't need to install it. You can import it with import tkinter.

answered Apr 14 '20 at 22:23

Josh Clark

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 23 '20 at 20:05

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I've had the same issue:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter'

After quite a while I finally realized that I needed to install the python-tk package. On Linux all I needed to do was sudo apt-get install python3-tk.

edited Apr 23 '20 at 20:05

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answered Apr 23 '20 at 19:44

Ugly

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Is that the exact error you received? From looking at https://askubuntu.com/questions/815874/importerror-no-named-tkinter-please-install-the-python3-tk-package, I would expect the more specific one. – AMC Apr 23 '20 at 21:59
That's the exact error I received from python when attempting to run: `import tkinter` – Ugly Apr 24 '20 at 12:27
Unfortunately, this question is about macOS, not Linux, so this answer is not really relevant. – mhucka Jul 12 '22 at 02:25

How can I install tkinter for Python on Mac?

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