Fedora 42 tkinter issue

[mzigaib]

I am having this warning about python when try to start a game on Lutris on Fedora 42

The script wemod-launcher is running on version 1.528
Critical error, tkinter is not installed,
make sure you have installed the correct tkinter package for your system,
search the internet for 'install tkinter for YOURDISTRO',
replace YOURDISTRO with your actual distro

I do have tkinter installed, can someone help me?

[shymega]

Please:

a) Attach the full log as an attachment.
b) List the package you used for Tkinter to install on Fedora.
c) Try the following when entering a python3 REPL (i.e, the python3 command in a terminal):

import tkinter

And then take a screenshot of the results. It should return to the prompt.

[mzigaib]

Attaching the log and if I import tkinter on python I get this:

Python 3.13.3 (main, Apr 22 2025, 00:00:00) [GCC 15.0.1 20250418 (Red Hat 15.0.1-0)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import tkinter
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
import tkinter
File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/tkinter/init.py", line 38, in
import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ImportError: libtk8.6.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
brew
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
brew
NameError: name 'brew' is not defined

I know it is a issue but how could I fix it?
wemod.log

[shymega]

Try sudo dnf install tk-devel tkinter, then re-run import and paste...

[mzigaib]

Just an update:
I use python 3.14 I don't have errors importing tkinter

[mzigaib]

I will try what you mentioned.

[mzigaib]

Using wemod from other location still give me the same issue.

[mzigaib]

I think I am going to quit, I am not sure how to fix this python issue on my system

Thanks for the help anyway.

[marvin1099]

You could still try to uninstall all python versions (+ remove python-venv and tk), remove lutris and the wemod-launcher.
After that restart then only get the newest versions of Python and lutrus (also get python-venv and tk; make shure you get the correct package; not shure what name tk uses on fedora)
Regrab the wemod-launcher then retry.
It should all work like that.

If all else fails make use of distrobox.
That way you can still use fedora but run some software in a other distro (distrobox has low overhead and GPU support so you can easily use Lutris, Steam, the wemod-launcher or some other GUI app with it).

[mzigaib]

Thanks for the reply.
I did make a fresh install of Fedora and now I don't have any python issues, I can make Wemod launch and work but it is unstable and it somehow impacts on the performance of the games.

[marvin1099]

Interesting.
Well you can try other proton and wine versions.
But other that that we don't / can't control how fast Wemod runs right.
So there isn't realy a solution for that one.

[mzigaib]

Thank you for the feedback.

Update:
I did set it up to run Wemod on Bottles directly with some tweaking and it seems to work well so far.
I set it as a shortcut for wemod.bat so now I can start it and call the games from there just like I do in Windows, I had to set the wine path manually work thou, I also had to turn the overlay off which was causing instability on the games I tested.
It may have some option there that can fix that but I could not find it but so far but in general it worked properly on the games I tested.

Here some description of the options that I used on Bottles.

-I used the standard gaming profile
-Runner = ge-proton9-22
-Windows version = 11
-Environment variable = WINE=YOUR-WINE-PATH
Everything else on default

One of the things I wish it was working properly on the games I tested:
-It did not recognize my PS5 properly like in Lutris though it detected as a Xbox controller.

Any tips to make this kind of setup work better are welcome.