How do I install tkinter on an Amazon Linux EC2 instance?

Question

I am working on an EC2 instance with Amazon linux and python 3.5. I have a package which at some point imports tkinter directly (differing from this question: Install Tkinter On Amazon Linux where it's imported by matplotlib ).

Let's say I don't want to modify this script, is there a way to install tkinter outside of Anaconda (because I know that it works with Anaconda, since someone else is able to use tkinter with Anaconda).

I have checked the presence in yum search and did not really understand how to build it from source.

Answer 1

This previous question goes into some detail on how to get it to install. With it being a headless Linux there's some additional hoops to jump through to get it to actually install.