Showing posts with label pygame. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pygame. Show all posts

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Install pygame for python3 on Ubuntu 12.04



To install pygame for python3, do the following:

 1. Open up the terminal and type the following code:
     $ sudo apt-get install python3-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsmpeg-dev python-numpy subversion libportmidi-dev

2. Then once all libraries are downloaded and installed:
     $ svn co svn://seul.org/svn/pygame/trunk pygame
     $ cd pygame
     $ python3 setup.py build
     $ sudo python3 setup.py install

Good to go. You can now run pygame with python3.

To test, open the terminal and try for yourself
$ python3
Python 3.2.3 (default, Jun 18 2015, 21:46:58)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pygame
>>>