Where can I find and install the dependencies for pygame?

python linux debian pygame
Andy picture Andy · Oct 4, 2011 · Viewed 24.8k times · Source

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.

Answer

kiranmathewkoshy picture kiranmathewkoshy · Mar 12, 2013

$ 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 \

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