No documentation for "tk" python failure about meshtasticator

[GUVWAF]

Now they will be faced with "Tkinter is needed. Install python3-tk with your package manager." when it failed to import, no other error message, as I catch it. Would that suffice?
I think it is installed by default from Python 3.7 on, so I would rather not make the install instructions longer, if possible.

[GUVWAF]

Okay, thanks!

[GUVWAF]

Coincidentally, somebody else reported this as well and I just added an ImportError catch in this commit. Problem is indeed that it cannot be installed using pip, so I recommend people to install tk using their package manager. On Debian systems, it's apt-get install python3-tk, for example.

Thanks for reporting though.

[ajmcquilkin]

Yeah for sure! I had seen that commit, I'm wondering if there's a way to make it very clear to users that have that issue that the issue is a missing package instead of another build issue. I had a bit of experience with tk before which was why I knew to install it

[GUVWAF]

Ah, I see. What would you propose to make it more clear, maybe by giving some example commands?

[ajmcquilkin]

I was thinking even something as simple as a note in the installing section, maybe in the Usage subheaders in the discrete and interactive sim docs. I was imagining that the docs could say something to the effect of "If you run into a build issue that looks like [describe the issue], make sure you have tkinter installed on your computer."

[ajmcquilkin]

Oh yeah that sounds great! Honestly just anything that will let newer users know what's going wrong when tkinter isn't on the system, totally get not wanting to extend the docs