How to pip or easy_install tkinter on Windows

Question

My Idle is throwing errors that and says tkinter can\'t be imported.

Is there a simple way to install tkinter via pip or

Answer 1

If you are using virtualenv, it is fine to install tkinter using sudo apt-get install python-tk(python2), sudo apt-get install python3-tk(python3), and and it will work fine in the virtual environment