🔒 I get an error about tkinter for some reason?

[civic gull]

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[verbal pumice]

what python version are you using

[final knot]

3.10.7

[verbal pumice]

ubuntu?

[final knot]

na arch

[final knot]

my pc aint running that 😭

[verbal pumice]

oh, idk much abt arch. did you build python yourself? or is that gentoo?

[final knot]

i built it

these are the commands:

$ sudo pacman -Sy python-pip

$ wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.7/Python-3.10.7.tar.xz
$ tar -xf Python-3.10.7.tar.xz
$ cd Python-3.10.7
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ python3 -V

[verbal pumice]

why 3.10 specifically if i may ask?

[final knot]

i could not install 3.12.4

it kept giving an error

so i just opted for 3.10

[verbal pumice]

I know on debian-based systems tk is often in its own package. but I have no experience self-building I'm afraid

[final knot]

do you know the command?

[verbal pumice]

sudo apt install python3 -tk or something like that?

[summer socket]

pacman -S python doesn't work?

[final knot]

you have to do more than that

[verbal pumice]

sudo pacman -S python-tk?

[final knot]

target not found

[verbal pumice]

nvm, that was a guess tbh

what about python-full? that's usually the metapackage to install the entire schtuff

[final knot]

target not FOUND

💀

[summer socket]

there's a tk package too

[final knot]

did not work

nvm i found a package

IT WORKS

[summer socket]

which package?

[final knot]

sudo pacman -S tk

we kept doing:

sudo pacman -S python-tk

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[civic gull]

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🔒 I get an error about tkinter for some reason?