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 * Linux: If `<ipython-input-3-2c12d96ddab5>:7: UserWarning: Matplotlib is currently using agg;, which is a non-GUI backend, so cannot show the figure.` this error pops up:
     * update imports to explicitly use a gui backend for matplotlib: `matplotlib.use('tkAgg')`
-    * install tkinter `pip install tkinter`
+    * install tkinter `pip install tkinter` or in debian based environments such as the hansken sdk `sudo apt install python3-tk`