how to install tkinter with Pycharm?

Question

I used sudo apt-get install python3.6-tk and it works fine. Tkinter works if I open python in terminal, but I cannot get it installed on my Pycharm project. pip install command says it cannot find Tkinter. I cannot find python-tk in the list of possible installs either.

Is there a way to get Tkinter just standard into every virtualenv when I make a new project in Pycharm?

Edit: on Linux Mint

Edit2: It is a clear problem of Pycharm not getting tkinter guys. If I run my local python file from terminal it works fine. Just that for some reason Pycharm cannot find anything tkinter related.

Answer 1

Make sure you use the right import statement for your version of Python.

Python 2.7

from Tkinter import *

For Python 3.x

from tkinter import *

Answer 2

For python 2 use:

sudo apt-get install python-tk

For python 3 use:

sudo apt-get install python3-tk

When you display info about packages it states:

Tkinter - Writing Tk applications with Python2 (or Python 3.x)

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But my assumption is that PyCharm created it's own virtualenv for you project, so you are probably using wrong python interpreter in PyCharm.

Open your PyCharm project. Go to File->Settings->Project->Project Interpreter. At top, you will see what python interpreter is PyCharm using for a current project. If that's not the system one you have, find path to system interpreter and add it to Python Interpreters in PyCharm.

More details on PyCharm Documentation.