Why doesn't tkinter import on CentOs 7

Question

I have the python3-tkinter installed, as shown below:

$ sudo yum install python3-tkinter
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Answer 1

For Python 3.6.x on CentOS 7.4, install:

$ sudo yum install python36-tkinter

You need to have EPEL repository configured.