Ubuntu – Install pygame in anaconda

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I have anaconda on Ubuntu 14.04. I want to install the pygame module with anaconda. I already run sudo apt-get install python-pygame, but this only works on python, not in anaconda.

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I realize I am quite late to the party but here is what worked for me if anyone needs it. Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit with Anaconda 2.3.0 installed.

Install binstar:

conda install binstar

You get a response like: The 'binstar' conda package has been renamed to 'anaconda-client'. Please run: conda install anaconda-client. So run:

conda install anaconda-client

Then search for the pygame package on anaconda.org:

anaconda search -t conda pygame

You get a list of pygame packages available at anaconda.org. Select a package for your distribution e.g. tlatorre/pygame is for Linux 64-bit. To install it use:

conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/tlatorre pygame

Once done, import pygame should work.

Credit: Answer by cohdez on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29137369/installing-pygame-module-in-anaconda-mac

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How to Install Pygame on Ubuntu 13.10

The reason you are not able to import pygame into your python interpreter is because you are installing it for python2 and starting the python3 interpreter(Ubuntu 13.10 uses python3 by default).

To install pygame for python2(your version is 2.7.5), do this on a terminal(Ctrl+Alt+t):

sudo apt-get install python-pygame

and then start the python2 interpreter

python2

and then try to import pygame as

import pygame

To set python2 as your default interpreter, you can set an alias in your bash_aliases file. To do this, open a terminal and type:

nano ~/.bash_aliases

This may open an empty file, depending upon whether you have set an alias before and then type

alias python='python2'

Do not change symlinks in /usr/bin/python3, since this may break many application in Ubuntu 13.10 which use python3 vociriferously.

Python 13.10 – Download Pygame in Python3.3

Here's a link to a solution for Ubuntu 12.04. Hope it helps. From the terminal:

Change to your home directory.
```
cd ~
```

Get Pygame source code.

sudo apt-get install mercurial
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame
cd pygame

Install dependencies.

sudo apt-get install python3-dev python3-numpy libsdl-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev \
  libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsmpeg-dev libportmidi-dev \
  libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libjpeg-dev libfreetype6-dev

Build and install Pygame.

python3 setup.py build
sudo python3 setup.py install

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