I'm having a lot of trouble installing pygame. I'm running ubuntu. I'm trying to install it with 'pip install pygame' but I keep getting an error message:
Unable to run "sdl-config". Please make sure a development version of SDL is installed.
I've tried downloading the source from the pygame website but still its not working i just get the same error when i try and run setup.py.
Any Ideas? Thanks in advance.
The easiest way to install Pygame on Ubuntu is through apt. Just run sudo apt-get install python-pygame, and it will handle all the native dependencies for you. pip is better for pure-python dependencies or if you have to use it (eg, in a virtualenv).
If u got error like 404 Not Found when run
sudo apt-get install python-pygame
Then this link can help you
https://community.webfaction.com/questions/315/how-do-i-install-pygame
Here is the solution that worked for me:
sudo apt-get build-dep python-pygame
sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo apt-get install libv4l-dev
cd /usr/include/linux
sudo ln -s ../libv4l1-videodev.h videodev.h
and finally run the pip command (can be done through virtualenv or conda):
pip install 'Pygame == 1.9.1release' --allow-external Pygame --allow-unverified Pygame
In pycharm specifying a dev version (in my case 2.0.0.dev8) fixed that problem for me.
Here's the after:
