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

[Miriam English <mim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

dbcad7 wrote:

> 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.
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> 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)

Yes, pygame doesn't appear to be available yet using pupget.

I have both old and relatively recent machines. Puppy functions well on 
all of them. It is small (commonly less than 100MB) and very fast, and 
comes as a live CD that is installable on separate partition or inside a 
file on another OS. Most new Linuxes are dreadfully slow on old hardware 
and low energy hardware. Having Puppy on all my machines makes life much 
easier.... that is, unless getting pygame to work becomes too much 
hassle. I absolutely need pygame.

I'll check out XFLD. Thanks.

Best wishes,

	- Miriam

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