Install tkinter on centos 6.5 with python 3.5

Question

I want to install tkinter on a Centos 6.5 with python 3.5. I am using a virtual env. I have already installed python-tk, python-imaging-tk, python3-tk and tkinter via yum. However, when I try

import tkinter

I get

ImportError: No module named 'tkinter'

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I you are willing to settle for Python 3.4 then you can run

yum install -y epel-release
yum install -y python34-tkinter

This also install the python3.4 binary and then you can run

import tkinter

If you instead need Python 3.5, then you probably need to build it from source which is a bit cumbersome.