Comments on: How to Install and Use Thonny Python IDE on Linux

By: Romain

Romain — Tue, 14 May 2024 06:47:16 +0000

Thonny can now be installed through the package manager for Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora distros: https://github.com/thonny/thonny/wiki/Linux

By: Fernando Saraiva

Fernando Saraiva — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:25:27 +0000

In reply to David. You can fix that Tkinter error by installing Python:

> sudo apt-get install python3-tk

It worked for me, I was able to run Thonny after that. Had to run it from ~/.local/bin/thonny, not the path I expected but it works.

By: David

David — Mon, 31 May 2021 13:20:53 +0000

In reply to Mike. Not in the Buster repos, so I installed using pip3. Has to be started from /usr/bin - not good. then... at this point, I gave up. User friendly is something else.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/./thonny", line 8, in 
    sys.exit(launch())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/thonny/__init__.py", line 213, in launch
    from thonny import ui_utils
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/thonny/ui_utils.py", line 14, in 
    import tkinter as tk
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter'

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 03 May 2021 13:22:54 +0000

Thank you for the Thonny installation instructions!