RE: [pygame] getting pygame to work on Puppy Linux

["dbcad7" <dbcad7@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
I also don't know all that much about Puppy Linux, but in navagaing their web site I see that they have something called "pupget" for installing applications. I would check there first to see if pygame is available.

I don't like to steer people away from their favorite distro.. If puppy is for you, then by all means try and make it work.. but if you are open to alternatives, then I will give you two.. If you have newer hardware and like the xfce window manager, then consider installing Xubuntu. If your hardware is a bit older, then you might consider intalling XFLD http://www.xfld.org both of these are live CD's that you can install to the HD. The advantage is that you will have access to APT repositories which probably have a bit more software avaiable than Puppy. If you install XFLD, you might then want to add Synaptic to it, which will make it even easier to find and install other software. (Xubuntu comes with Synaptic pre-installed)




 --- On Sun 06/03, Miriam English < mim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
From: Miriam English [mailto: mim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:32:40 +1000
Subject: [pygame] getting pygame to work on Puppy Linux

Hi folks,I've been gradually migrating everything on my machines from MSWindows to a few flavors of Linux. My favorite form of Linux so far is Puppy Linux, but I can't for the life of me get pygame working on it. Python was easy to install. I can get the main SDL library compiled, but not SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, SDL_image, smpeg. So I've tried copying the appropriate libs from rpms (though I know that is fraught with problems of incompatible versions).When I try to run any pygame program it simply fails with the message:"Fatal Python error: (pygame parachute) Floating Point ExceptionAborted"Can anybody give me any pointers?If nothing else can anybody tell me how to compile the SDL libs (SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, SDL_image, smpeg, etc) that pygame needs. The source downloadables don't give any clue that I can see, and simply dropping binaries in has yielded no joy.Has anybody got pygame to work from start, without relying on python + SDL + other stuff already in the OS?It is so easy to 
do on MS-Windows. I'm surprised it is so difficult in Linux.Best wishes,	- Miriam-- ---------=---------=---------=---------=---------=---------=------A life! Cool! Where can I download one of those from?---------=---------=---------=---------=---------=---------=------Website: http://miriam-english.orgBlog: http://miriam-e.livejournal.com

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