I recently got a new laptop and installed Debian 13. I added pyenv and am trying to set up 3.13, but am hitting an issue I haven’t experienced before: tkinker troubles. So first, I acknowledge Python 3.13.11 installed. But at the end of the installation I got
WARNING: The Python tkinter extension was not compiled and GUI subsystem has been detected. Missing the Tk toolkit?
Looking online, seems like this is a common problem, but so far, all the proposed solutions are the same: make sure I have the packages tk, tkdev, and libtk (in my case, I tried libtk8.6 and libtk9.0) installed, and their supporting packages. All the packages that I’ve seen listed so far were installed before I did the first install. I’ve tried a bunch of packages sets, such as https://devguide.python.org/getting-started/setup-building/#install-dependencies. Everything is installed, but I keep getting the same error.
I’m wondering if anyone has suggestions besides these packages and their dependencies. Thankfully I can continue with my work, but as tkinter is something I was hoping to try out in the near future, I’d like to figure out why I can’t install it.