Trouble running backend without GUI/Tkinter

[MemduhG]

Describe the bug Tkinter seems to be needed to run this, even when it's just the backend. Perhaps I am making a mistake. Here is the command I ran and the output it gave me:

$ python lexonomy.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/lex/lexonomy/website/lexonomy.py", line 9, in <module>
    import ops
  File "/root/lex/lexonomy/website/ops.py", line 25, in <module>
    from icu import Locale, Collator
  File "/root/lex/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/icu/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    import tkinter as tk
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter'

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. SSH to a server with no visual output
2. Clone the repo
3. Install the python dependencies with pip
4. Run with python3 lexonomy.py

Expected behavior I would have expected the backend to start up so I could access it from another machine.

Environment

• Digitalocean droplet running Ubuntu 23.10 x64
• Python 3.11.6
• versions of the installed modules:

  $ pip freeze
  beautifulsoup4==4.12.2
  cffi==1.16.0
  cryptography==41.0.5
  icu==0.0.1
  jwt==1.3.1
  lxml==4.9.3
  Markdown==3.5
  pycparser==2.21
  soupsieve==2.5
  typing_extensions==4.8.0

[MemduhG]

Had the wrong package name for ICU, they explain things on their git website here: https://gitlab.pyicu.org/main/pyicu

What worked for me was:

apt-get install pkg-config libicu-dev
pip install --no-binary=:pyicu: pyicu