So, did you check if you have tk/tcl installed?

See my message 39
tk is installed but I think it is defaulting to python2

However when I do this:

Why did you do :
pip install tk
pip install tkinter
?

for python3 it is like I said some posts above :
pip3 install tk
and maybe :
pip3 install tkinter

pip3 is for python3 and pip for python which is python2

tkinter is only for python3

Just to verify if tk for python3 is here as it seems something is missing.

To test if Tcl and Tk are installed, you can also test if wish is present :
> which wish

tkinter is a module for Python3 which encapsulate Tcl/Tk. It needs Tcl and Tk.

So if tkinter is installed it won't work without Tcl and Tk installed.
Or tkinter is not installed.

pip3 will tell you in either case.

is this correct?

I installed pip from sbopkg
There was no option for pip3

Good question, which shouldn't be a problem if OP did a full install of Slackware 14.2. Because while Python3 is a third party package (14.2 comes with Python2 only), SLackware 14.2 comes with tk.


Can you explicitly check if you have the tk package installed? The tk package that you can see here: https://slackware.uk/slackware/slack...ackware64/tcl/

Please, you don't `python -m tkinter` INSIDE a Python interactive session, thisi s a shell command. Since this is not obvious to you, IMHO you're just complicating your life a lot by using an outdated version of Slackware where you need to install Python 3 as third party.

I assume you're a casual Slackware user? How much sense does it make to you to just install Slackware 15.0 (it's already like half an year old, it comes with Python3 as well, so you won't have to do that part yourself), properly update it after installing (by upgrading packages from patches/packages, either manually, or with slackpkg), then just install thonny from slackbuilds.org the right way (like I suggested in my first answer in this thread - generate the queue with sqg, then load it in sbopkg and let it do the job)?

You don't "tell pip to use python3". Pip is the Python package manager. For http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/python/python3/ pip comes as part of that package and is named "pip3", to avoid name clashes with "pip" which is the pip for the system Python2 install in vanilla Slackware 14.2 Or you can invoke pip as a module through the python interpreter, for python3 at least, because I don't remember if this is true for python2 as well. Thus `python3 -m pip` would be the same as 'pip3' for the Python3 installed via SBo for Slackware 14.2

In situations like this (when you lack enough understanding of the problem) making assumptions is risky. Any wrong assumption that you make and apply will only make matters worse.

Why would you do that? Uninstalling python2, which is a vanilla 14.2 package, makes your Slackware install not being a full install anymore. And incomplete installs of Slackware most of the time are the main reason why further installing third party software goes wrong. Python3 from SBo that is provided for Slackware 14.2 does not interfere with the default python2 that comes with vanilla Slackware. It is stated explicitly here http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/1...python3/README

sbofind is yet another third party frontend to SBo, not even related to sbopkg. By involving it in this context, you're adding yet another layer of complexity and confusion. You don't need to look for pip on SBo. See what I wrote about pip vs pip3 above.

Good. Feel free to consider my suggestion above then. About moving to Slackware 15.0, starting from scratch, and do things the right way, not the way you think it's right.

The chances are very high that you will break some other vanilla packages that depend on it. This is the main reason why running full vanilla Slackware installs is the norm.

Why would you do this? tk is a package name. which looks for commands.

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There is no pip3 in Slackbuild
a search of pip3 usually reverts to just pip

If there is a pip3 out there I cannot find it.

Yes, I believe that is the route to take.
I will burn a disk tomorrow and back up that which is necessary.

At the beginning of the thread you had pip3. But you have upgraded pip, and I have seen a thread that was saying that upgrading pip remove pip3 (I don't remenber where). The remedy is to reinstall the python3 package.

Else there is everything in Slackware 15 like was said above.

I thought I had pip3 but never did.

I do wonder if anyone has ever got thonny to work with python3.

What gets me is that python is used as a learning tool. Good luck with that.

Lets see what tomorrow brings with 15.0 installed.

As it is Slackware, I would go FlinchX path.

First build the queue with sqg -p

Then install it via sbopkg -i

And enjoy

Edit : what about env ?

I will upgrade. I was puting it off so this has forced my hand

Going back to python3. It clearly does not work.


On this site I looked at, pip and pip3 seem to be mixed up on the same command strings.

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/...ython3-modules

Here is another one

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...-with-python-3

It's now clear to me that pip3 might well be the version but in a command string it's pip, which is exactly what I was doing.

No wonder I was getting confused!!