How to install tix package on Ubuntu 20.04?

Overview

Tix is an open-source widget toolkit that works with Tk, the well-known cross-platform GUI toolkit. To aid developers in creating responsive and user-friendly applications, it provides a variety of additional widgets and helps in improving the usability, flexibility, and utility of applications.

Prerequisites

There are certain prerequisites that need to be met before you begin.

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS configured on your system.

• Non-root sudo user privileges.

• Python installed on your system.

Get Started

Step 1: Check if Python is installed on your system; otherwise, an error will be displayed. Since the Tkinter extension module is a Python binding for the Tk GUI toolkit, access to it is made possible by the tix package.

python --version

Step 2: Update the Ubuntu package list.

sudo apt update

Step 3: Install tix package on your system.

sudo apt install –y tix 

Step 4: Once the package is installed, run the command given in step 3 again to verify the installation.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learnt how to install Tix package on Ubuntu 20.04.