Tkinter in python - not found

Question

I wanted to use tkinter in python 2.7, but it says, it is not found. Neither I can install it using pip install. How to install it ?

Python 2.7.5 (default, Nov  6 2016, 00:28:07)
[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11)] on linux2
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>>> import tkinter
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named tkinter

>>> import Tkinter
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named Tkinter
>>>



pip install tkinter
Collecting tkinter
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tkinter (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for tkinter


 pip install Tkinter
Collecting Tkinter
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement Tkinter (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for Tkinter

Answer 1

You need to install the python-tk package:

apt install python-tk