Unable to install Pygame using pip

Question

I'm trying to install Pygame. I am running Windows 7 with Enthought Python Distribution. I successfully installed pip, but when I try to install Pygame using pip, I get the following error:

"Could not install requirement Pygame because of HTTP error HTTP error 400: Bad request for URL ..."

I can't find anything about this issue with a Google search, but I did find another Stack Overflow question that prompted the asker to use the following command:

pip install hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame

This gave me the following error:

Cannot find command hg

I'm not sure what else to do, as everything I find with a Google search is for Mac, so I don't know how well I can follow those instructions on Windows.

Answer 1

Steps to install PyGame using pip

1. Install build dependencies (on linux):

   sudo apt-get build-dep python-pygame
   

2. Install mercurial to use hg (on linux):

   sudo apt-get install mercurial
   

   On Windows you can use the installer: Download

3. Use pip to install PyGame:

   pip install hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame
   

   If the above gives freetype-config: not found error (on Linux), then try sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev and then repeat 3.

Alternative way:

# Grab source
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame

# Finally build and install
cd pygame
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install