Pygame_How to Install Pygame to Python 3 on Ubuntu

Installation

Start by installing all necessary dependencies, and mercurial and checkinstall for the installation:

1 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 libportmidi-dev ffmpeg libswscale-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev checkinstall mercurial

Then download the latest version of the Pygame source code with the following command (this uses mercurial):

1 hg clone https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame

Go into the downloaded Pygame directory:

1 cd pygame

Compile the source code by typing this command into the terminal:

1 python3 setup.py build

Finally install Pygame by doing this:

1 sudo checkinstall python3 setup.py install

Extra stuff

Click here to read why you should use checkinstall.

Use this command to see information about your pygame installation:

1 apt-get cache show pygame

And this command to uninstall Pygame:

1 dpkg -r pygame

or:

1 sudo apt-get remove pygame

Notes

The most recent stable pygame version when writing this is 1.9.1 (August 2009). I did this installation on Ubuntu 12.04 and this was needed since there isn’t a python3-pygame available in the repository.