Where can I find and install the dependencies for pygame?

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I am relatively new to linux and am trying to install the pygame dev environment for python. When I run the setup.py it says that I need to install the following dependencies, one of which I found and installed (SDL). However, the others have been more elusive.

Hunting dependencies...
sh: smpeg-config: command not found
WARNING: "smpeg-config" failed!
SDL     : found 1.2.14
FONT    : not found
IMAGE   : not found
MIXER   : not found
SMPEG   : not found
PNG     : not found
JPEG    : not found
SCRAP   : found
PORTMIDI: not found
PORTTIME: not found

If you could give me some guidance I would appreciate it.

Thank you.

Have you done an `apt-get update` (not to be confused with `apt-get upgrade`)? When I'm running on anything other than Debian stable, I have to update my repositories regularly. — Wilduck, Oct 04 '11 at 19:43
Hi Wilduck, I just learned about that recently and had done it earlier. I'm worried that my sources.list may not be up-to-date though. Currently it reads like this: ----------------deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian lenny main *************deb http://security.debian.org lenny/updates main------- I added the * and - symbols to separate the sources — Andy, Oct 04 '11 at 20:23
If you think your sources.list might be out of date, I would suggest heading over to superuser.com, they'll be able to help diagnose the issue a little better. Good luck. — Wilduck, Oct 05 '11 at 14:35
You can refer to this compilation [section](http://www.pygame.org/wiki/Compilation). — , Sep 27 '12 at 07:27

score 38 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 11 '20 at 06:29

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$ sudo apt-get install python-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsmpeg-dev python-numpy subversion libportmidi-dev ffmpeg libswscale-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev

Or sorted slightly:

sudo apt-get install \
  python-dev \
  python-numpy \
  subversion \
  ffmpeg \
  libsdl1.2-dev \
  libsdl-image1.2-dev \
  libsdl-mixer1.2-dev \
  libsdl-ttf2.0-dev \
  libavcodec-dev \
  libavformat-dev \
  libportmidi-dev \
  libsmpeg-dev \
  libswscale-dev \

edited Sep 11 '20 at 06:29

Nick T

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answered Mar 12 '13 at 18:04

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Also works for pygame3 if you replace python-dev with python3-dev – Thoth19 Jun 04 '15 at 10:39

score 26 · Answer 2 · answered May 25 '13 at 22:04

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Behold, one of the most useful tools on debian-based dsitros:

apt-get build-dep python-pygame

Installs all the dependences required to build pygame :)

On Fedora:

yum-builddep package_name

answered May 25 '13 at 22:04

GuySoft

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This worked for me. This is what I needed because I was installing `pygame` using `pip`. – HeatfanJohn Feb 16 '18 at 17:12

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 04 '11 at 18:38

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For debian, there is a pre-built package available. See here. You should be able to install it with apt-get or something similar.

answered Oct 04 '11 at 18:38

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Hi Constantinius I downloaded the .deb from the linked site and get a host of dependencies not available. It looks like im missing libsmpeg and libsdl, which I thought I installed sdl already. I think I may be missing some links in my sources.list table and thats why I am missing a lot of packages normall available using apt-get – Andy Oct 04 '11 at 18:54

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 05 '19 at 04:01

this steps work for me on Ubuntu 16.04:

$ sudo apt-get install python-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev   libsdl1.2-dev libsmpeg-dev python-numpy subversion libportmidi-dev ffmpeg libswscale-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev

$ sudo pip3 install pygame

danuker · Answer 5 · 2020-10-04T17:10:34.260

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My list for Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -Sy sdl_ttf sdl_sound sdl_image sdl_mixer portmidi

edited Oct 04 '20 at 17:10

answered Jul 08 '20 at 22:40

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Thank you, I was having problems bfr – Michael Enitan Sep 15 '20 at 13:39
@MichaelEnitan: were these dependencies enough to get it working? – danuker Sep 19 '20 at 11:47
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@danukar: Yes they were – Michael Enitan Oct 04 '20 at 04:28

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 04 '11 at 18:40

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If you run one of supported Linux distributions (see "Unix Distributions" section), you just install pygame from a repository, and dependencies are installed, too.

Generally, you need SDL (libsdl and friends), Python, Numpy.

answered Oct 04 '11 at 18:40

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Pygame continues to be elusive, I will work on it a little more today. I'm having trouble finding what the source address would be to put into my sources.list in order to get pygame. – Andy Oct 05 '11 at 12:51

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 27 '20 at 18:29

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on ubuntu 20.04 as of this date I had the SDL missing error and found a solution only to run into a freetype error then had to reinstall because the --user option in the python3 pip command kept me from accessing the module

Here is a one line solution that worked for me with python version 3.8.2:

sudo apt-get install python-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsmpeg-dev python-numpy subversion libportmidi-dev ffmpeg libswscale-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev install libfreetype6-dev && python3 pip -m install -u pygame

answered Apr 27 '20 at 18:29

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For me, on Ubuntu 20.04, was enough with these packages: `libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev libportmidi-dev` – Manuel Jun 07 '20 at 08:21
You have an extra "install" in your commandline. – Alexander Pruss Dec 30 '20 at 15:26

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 31 '21 at 21:06

I (debian buster, python2) recently tried to update pygame from 1.9.4 to 2.0.2, and it seems there has been a switch to newer dependencies compared to the other answers given here, for example from libsdl1.2-dev to libsdl2-dev.

This is what i needed to install for pip2 install --upgrade pygame to go through without error:

sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libportmidi-dev

score 0 · Answer 9 · edited Feb 16 '15 at 14:30

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Mine is Fedora-20, and I found this worked:

sudo yum install python-opengl
sudo yum install python-devel SDL_image-devel SDL_mixer-devel SDL_ttf-devel SDL-devel smpeg-devel numpy subversion portmidi-devel

Downloaded the smpeg from the website:

http://freecode.com/projects/smpeg

and did a local install:

sudo yum localinstall smpeg-0.4.5-2.1.x86_64.rpm 
sudo yum install pygame pygame-devel

edited Feb 16 '15 at 14:30

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answered Nov 15 '14 at 08:36

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