Installation

guizero is designed to allow new learners to quickly and easily create GUIs for their programs.

If you can download and unzip a file, you can install guizero - no special permissions or administrator rights are required.

If you have administrator rights and are connected to the internet, you can use the command line to install or upgrade guizero (recommended).

Easy install

  1. Go to the guizero repository on GitHub.

  2. Click the green "Code" button and then "Download ZIP"

    Download the zip

  3. Open the zip file

  4. Open the guizero-master folder, then copy the guizero folder and paste it into your home directory

    • Windows

      Copy the guizero folder in windows

    • macOS

      Copy the guizero folder in macos

  5. That's it! When you write your guizero code, make sure you save it into your home directory.

Install using command line

You can use the command prompt to install guizero for:

pip can also be used to install additional features and upgrade guizero.

Windows

  1. Open a command prompt by clicking Start > Windows System > Command Prompt, or by typing 'command' into the start menu's search bar.

    windows command prompt

  2. Type this command to use pip to install guizero and press enter:

    pip3 install guizero

windows pip install

If you experience problems, have a look at this guide to Using pip on Windows.

macOS

  1. Open a terminal window by clicking Applications > Utilities > Terminal, or by typing 'terminal' into the desktop's search bar.

    Mac terminal

  2. Type this command to use pip to install guizero and press enter:

    pip3 install guizero

    mac pip install

Raspberry Pi

  1. Open a terminal window by clicking Menu > Accessories > Terminal.

    pi terminal

  2. Type this command to use apt to install guizero and press enter:

    sudo apt-get install python3-guizero

    run sudo apt-get install python3-guizero

Note: The installation available via apt may not be the latest. You can always install the latest version using pip.

Linux

  1. Open a terminal
  2. Install tkinter using your distribution's package manager, e.g. sudo apt install python3-tk

  3. Install guizero using pip by typing pip3 install guizero or sudo pip3 install guizero if you don't have superuser rights

    linux pip install

Note: If you are using Debian, you alternatively have the option to install guizero via apt sudo apt-get install python3-guizero

Install additional features

To use the additional image features of guizero such as:

  • JPG image support
  • scaling images
  • animated gifs

... you will need to install PIL/pillow (python imaging library).

You can install pillow using pip:

pip3 install guizero[images]

Or using apt on Raspberry Pi / Linux

sudo apt-get install python3-pillow

The additional image features are not available to install using the easy install method.

Upgrading guizero

Depending how you installed guizero will dictate how you should upgrade

Using pip:

pip3 install guizero --upgrade

Using apt

sudo apt-get install python3-guizero

If you installed guizero using the easy install method, to upgrade you should follow the same easy installation steps to download the latest version of guizero, then delete the old guizero folder and replace it with the newest version.