Ubuntu – How to install kivy

software installation

I was trying to install Kivy (by following the instructions here). I downloaded and installed all packages where the installation process went through without giving me any errors.

However, when later I enter below command;

sudo easy_install kivy

It looked like it was going to work but it ends with an error by displaying following lines, which I don't comprehend:

Detected compiler is unix
/tmp/easy_install-BtOA_u/Kivy-1.8.0/kivy/graphics/texture.c:8:22: fatal error: pyconfig.h: No such file or directory
#include "pyconfig.h"
                  ^
compilation terminated.
error: Setup script exited with error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

I saw a similar question asked as;
Problem with kivy installation. However, this didn't work for me though the question suggests installing libgles-mesa-dev-lts-raring which I did as below;

sudo apt-get install libgles-mesa-dev-lts-raring

which then gave below;

E: Unable to locate package libgles-mesa-dev-lts-raring

(sorry for being so specific and perhaps obvious, but I'm in the early stage of learning my way around linux).

This user was running Ubuntu 12.04, and most other questions related to this I've seen came from people with a different release from mine, which has led me to believe that that is the reason why the suggestions to those didn't solve my problem.

I'm using Ubuntu 13.10

Best Answer

Try the below commands on the terminal to install kivy on Ubuntu 13.10 and 14.04,

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kivy-team/kivy
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-kivy

Solution for NDIS Driver failed to install problem on HUAWEI Broadband devices:

Run the below command after installing the Huawei Modem Driver with NDIS driver install failed.
```
  sudo gedit /usr/local/Mobile_Partner/driver/ndis_driver/ndis_src/src/hw_cdc_driver.c
```

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Locate to the line Ln 2718,change dbg ("cant't kmalloc dev"); to //dbg ("cant't kmalloc dev");(adding double // infront of dbg),save the file and close the terminal.
Open new terminal and Change the directory path to /usr/local/Mobile_Partner/driver by running the below command
```
  cd /usr/local/Mobile_Partner/driver
```
Reinstall the driver by running the below command
```
  sudo ./install
```
Now,it shows NDIS driver installed successfully.

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Ubuntu – How to install latest Graphviz

I presume you are trying to install that package using sudo dpkg -i package, well, that normally leads to package dependency problems so normally I suggest the use of gdebi. If you have any problematic package remove it. You can check using sudo apt-get check. Now down to business:

sudo apt-get install gdebi-core

With that we have ready gdebi. Now if you use a 64-bit system you may like to install the 64-bit package, likewise with 32-bits.

Now here comes the funny stuff...

sudo gdebi graphviz_2.37.20140208.0545-1\~saucy_amd64.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done 
Building data structures... Done 
This package is uninstallable
Dependency is not satisfiable: libgd2-noxpm (>= 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg)|libgd2-xpm (>= 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg)

And here is where you stop. The reason is that the stable package depends on package that were dropped of Debian, ergo Ubuntu 13.10:

libgd2 (2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-6.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Support multi-arch: (closes: #652496)
    - Mark libgd2-xpm, libgd2-noxpm, libgd2-xpm-dev and libgd2-noxpm-dev
      as same.
    - Adjust d-shlibs and dh-buildinfo build-dependency.
  * Drop .la files.

 -- Bastian Blank   Sun, 13 May 2012 09:16:37 +0000

Those are dependencies of graphviz so they should change them to libgd2-xpm-dev and libgd2-noxpm-dev respectively. If that's the case, you should download the latest build instead 2.38 or later, which includes the correct dependencies.

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Ubuntu – How to install latest Graphviz

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