Re: [pygame] pygame on Python 3.4 pip install

[Russell Jones <russell.jones@xxxxxxxxx>]

I should add that though Debian has marked its absence as an important
bug, ensurepip is not (or wasn't when I last checked a week or two
ago) used in Debian Testing, and definitely isn't in Ubuntu 14.04,
with pyvenv. So you still have to install your own.

Russell

On 18 April 2014 21:23, Russell Jones <russell.jones@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Ubuntu 14.04, I installed it with the following
>
> sudo apt-get install mercurial "libsdl.*1.2-dev" build-essential
> sudo apt-get build-dep python-pygame
> sudo apt-get install python3-all-dev libswscale-dev libfreetype6-dev
> libavformat-dev
> pyvenv-3.4 --without-pip pygameve
> cd pygameve
> source bin/activate
> wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
> python get-pip.py
> pip install hg+https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame
>
> I can't see how it would be made much easier until the changes
> required for 3.4 hit the stable release (supposing they've all been
> made: I did no testing). Then it can go to PyPI, as I understand it.
> Building wheels would be helpful if that's not already happening, I
> guess.
>
> Russell
>
> On 12 February 2014 03:38, Paul Vincent Craven <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> What will it take to get Pygame to be easily installed via pip now that it
>> is the default package manager with Python starting in 3.4?
>>
>> Paul Vincent Craven