Install and make tkinter work on AWS EC2 instance

Question

I am desperately trying to make tkinter work on my EC2 instance.

I just want to be able to execute this line in python:

from tkinter import * 


        

Answer 1

After the previous answers I realized why it was not working so I made it work using an EC2 Ubuntu instance and doing the following:

  export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
  sudo -E apt-get update
  sudo -E apt-get install -y ubuntu-desktop
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freenx-team
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo aptitude install -y freenx
  wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/freenxserver/+bug/576359/+attachment/1378450/+files/nxsetup.tar.gz
  tar -xvf nxsetup.tar.gz
  sudo cp nxsetup /usr/lib/nx/nxsetup
  sudo /usr/lib/nx/nxsetup --install 

Then said no when asked for a password and did:

  sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config and set PasswordAuthentication to yes
  sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
  sudo passwd ubuntu
  sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

Once this was done I installed NX client on my local machine. All this thanks to this page

Connected to my new server where I was able to install python-tk like that:

 sudo apt-get install python-tk

And now I can use tkinter on my instance :)

Answer 2

Tkinter requires a display. Unless you can somehow access a desktop on the AWS instance, you won't be able to load tkinter, much less use it.