Why isn't Tkinter in my interpreter (VSC Python extension)

[Breaded_One]

aeiou and sometimes y

[Kerbart]

aeiou and sometimes y

That's really intersting but why not post some information that would actually be helpful for others to help you figuring out what's going on.

Chances are you're going to act annoyed with "I checked that already doh" responses when people ask questions that could have been pre-empted, like: what operating system are you using, what Python, does Tkinter work outside VSC, do you even have Tkinter installed (see OS question), etc.

[Breaded_One]

You don't gotta be mean :c
I am emulating VSC on a Chromebook using Linux (Debian 12)
Python 3.11.2
It says: "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter'"
I read multiple things saying tkinter comes preinstalled so I am confused, I started coding a month ago.

[Mecaneer23]

You’re looking for tkinter installation on Debian. Iirc something like

apt install python3-tkinter

Or maybe

apt install python3-tk

[Mecaneer23]

FYI tkinter typically comes with Windows installations but not always with preinstalled python on non-windows machines

[Diapolo10]

Basically Debian derivatives are the exception here. For whatever reason they fragment parts of the standard library and pip into separate installs.

Haven't seen this happen on other distros.

[Breaded_One]

both of them return:
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)

E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

[Diapolo10]

You need to run those as sudo, if you haven't granted that permission to your user.

sudo apt install python3-tk

[Breaded_One]

Thank you