tkinter install documentation entry (AntonOsika#675)

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 .. _Github repo: https://github.com/AntonOsika/gpt-engineer.git
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+Troubleshooting
+-------------
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+For mac and linux system, there are sometimes slim python installations that do not include the gpt-engineer requirement tkinter, which is a standard library and thus not pip installable.
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+To install tkinter on mac, you can for example use brew:
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+.. code-block:: console
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+    $ brew install python-tk
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+On debian-based linux systems you can use:
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+.. code-block:: console
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+    $ sudo apt-get install python3-tk