Re: [pygame] Installing Pygame on linux

[Nick Lunt <nick@javacat.f2s.com>]

Pete Shinners wrote:

> Nick Lunt wrote:
>
> > When I run setup.py I get the following error:
> > Hunting dependencies...
> > SDL     : found 1.2.7
> > FONT    : not found
> > IMAGE   : not found
> > MIXER   : not found
> > SMPEG   : found 0.4.4
> > NUMERIC : found 23.1
> >
> > I have installed SDL_mixer and SDL_image from the links on the pygame 
> > website, in /usr/local/SDL_image-1.2.3 and /usr/local/SDL_mixer-1.2.5 .
> > I also installed SDL into /usr/local/SDL-1.2.7 and linked sdl-config 
> > to /usr/local/bin/ . I can't even find SDL_font anywhere :(
>
> FONT is probably a poor name, it really needs SDL_ttf, used for the 
> pygame font module. To get mixer, image, and font rolling you will 
> also need the "dev" packages for SDL_mixer, SDL_image, and SDL_ttf.
Ah I see, thankyou for clafifying that .

Nick.