Tkinter

Tkinter (tkinter in Python 3.x) claims to be "most portable GUI toolkit for Python"[1] and is Python's "de-facto standard GUI (Graphical User Interface) package"[2]. Although there are several other graphical toolkits for Python, Tkinter is the one most often used in GUI development with Python.

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for dev-lang/tk Tk Widget Set

`aqua`	Include support for the Mac OS X Aqua (Carbon/Cocoa) GUI
`debug`	Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
`test`	Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
`threads`	Add threads support for various packages. Usually pthreads
`truetype`	Add support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts
`xscreensaver`	Add support for XScreenSaver extension

Data provided by the Gentoo Package Database · Last update: 2021-09-13 19:40 More information about USE flags

make.conf

On Gentoo, getting Tkinter can be accomplished by directly emerging the package and/or by modifying your system's use flags. Since Tkinter is build on tcl and tk, both of which are closely related to Python, you can get the package by updating your system's global use flags and re-emerging Python. Using this method of installation will pull the packages needed to successfully run Tkinter.

First, modify package.use:

FILE /etc/portage/package.useAdd tk to the system's USE flags for dev-lang/python

dev-lang/python tk

Emerge

Finally, re-emerge @world using this command:

root #emerge --ask -uvDU @world

That is it! Tkinter should now be installed.

Usage

When attempting to use Tkinter in Python code, depending on the version(s) of Python are currently installed on the system, import Tkinter might need performed in different ways:

When using Python 2.x.: use import Tkinter
using Python 3.x: use import tkinter (note the lower case T).