TKinter in a Virtualenv

Question

Trying to run python code with TKinter-based widgets from a virtualenv.

    user@computer:~/myproject$ env/bin/python Python
    2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012,         


        

Answer 1

I manage to integrate tkinter in python3 to virtualenv by symlink tkinter folder to virtualenv python3. I works for me. But I don't know if it's the right way.

1. install tkinter

sudo apt-get install python3-tk

2. go to your virtualenv's python lib folder

cd ~/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.4/

3. link the tkinter

ln -s /usr/lib/python3.4/tkinter tkinter

Hope this helps.

In later versions of python, this may result in a

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_tkinter'

In this case, ensure to also symlink
/usr/lib/python3.x/lib-dynload/_tkinter.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
as path/to/virtualenv/lib/python3.x/lib-dynload/_tkinter.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so using

ln -s /usr/lib/python3.x/lib-dynload/_tkinter.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so _tkinter.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so

from within your virtualenv lib/python3.x/lib-dynload/ directory.