Why is there no tkinter distribution found?

Question

I am having a problem during the installation of tkinter. I have version 2.7.11. I entered the pip install tkinter on dos but it shows the following message:

Answer 1

Follow this guide to install "tkinter". However now with Python version 3.1 onwards, it is part of the standard python distribution.

You can also install it using sudo apt-get install python3-tk-dbg, if you are in virtualenv. (Same can be done for normal installation, not just virtualenv)