[pygame] Installation on Beaglebone Black w Angstrom Linux

[arthur.sugden@xxxxxxxxx]

I've been trying to install Pygame on the Beaglebone Black running Angstrom Linux with a Cortex-A8 processor. Although the online opkg repository lists python-pygame as available for arm7a architecture, searching via the beaglebone does not find python-pygame. After installing all of the dependencies listed on the online opkg repository, except for libsmpeg, I tried to install from source. However, the installation can't find libsdl-mixer, which I have already installed (v libsdl-mixer-1.2-0 - 1.2.11-r0.1) into /usr/lib.

Installation output:

root@beaglebone:~/Desktop/pygame-1.9.1release# LOCALBASE=/usr/lib python setup.py install

WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "config.py"

Using UNIX configuration...

Hunting dependencies...

sh: smpeg-config: command not found

WARNING: "smpeg-config" failed!

SDL     : found 1.2.15

FONT    : not found

IMAGE   : not found

MIXER   : not found

SMPEG   : not found

PNG     : found

JPEG    : found

SCRAP   : found

PORTMIDI: not found

PORTTIME: not found

I tried to set LOCALBASE, as suggested in the documentation, but this did not affect the installation output. I only hope to use the sound mixer portions of pygame. Can someone help me install it on the Beaglebone Black?

Many thanks,

Arthur

In case it's useful, here's the rchitecture from beaglebone opkg:

root@beaglebone:~/Desktop/SDL_mixer-1.2.12# opkg print-architecture

arch all 1

arch any 6

arch noarch 11

arch arm 16

arch armv4 21

arch armv5 26

arch armv5-vfp 31

arch armv5e 36

arch armv5e-vfp 41

arch armv6-vfp 46

arch armv7a 51

arch armv7a-vfp 56

arch armv7a-vfp-neon 61

arch beaglebone 66

Pygame opkg link: http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?pkgname=python-pygame