I am on Ubuntu 20.04LTS, and I try to install pygame (for python) for a school project. But when I try this: I received an error: Can you help me, please? Answer Try installing it with instead. The error you are getting is because you are missing the Pygame dependencies, which apt should install for you. As a general rule,

Problem to install pygame on ubuntu 20.04LTS

I am on Ubuntu 20.04LTS, and I try to install pygame (for python) for a school project. But when I try this:

sudo pip3 install pygame

I received an error:

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
 command: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-szdn6q_u/pygame/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-szdn6q_u/pygame/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'rn'"'"', '"'"'n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-3fqnujta
     cwd: /tmp/pip-install-szdn6q_u/pygame/
Complete output (18 lines):


WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "buildconfig/config.py"
Using UNIX configuration...


Hunting dependencies...
SDL     : found 1.2.15
FONT    : not found
IMAGE   : not found
MIXER   : not found
PNG     : found
JPEG    : found
SCRAP   : found
PORTMIDI: not found
PORTTIME: not found
FREETYPE: found 23.1.17
Missing dependencies
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

Can you help me, please?

Answer

Try installing it with

sudo apt install python3-pygame

instead. The error you are getting is because you are missing the Pygame dependencies, which apt should install for you.

As a general rule, it’s a good idea to install Python packages through the package manager, and use pip only if they’re unavailable there.

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