How to install pygame?

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I have been trying to install pygame for 3.3 and 3.4 and can't find a way to install it probably with out it giving a error when I do pygame.init().

Is it because pygame.init() is not the proper code or is it because I installed it incorrectly? If so, can someone tell me how to install it?

Please include more details about the error, and other installation details. No need to be cryptic. — underscoreC, Feb 18 '17 at 09:27

score 15 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 01 '14 at 22:00

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You can find binary installations for pygame for python 3.4 on windows here. I'm not sure where you could find it if you're running a different operating system.

answered Jul 01 '14 at 22:00

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 21 '15 at 19:31

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Check out downloads on their bitbucket repo (for windows): https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/downloads

answered Jul 21 '15 at 19:31

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 16 '17 at 16:28

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On Windows: open your comandline and type:

   pip install pygame

On Debian-based Linux type into your terminal:

sudo apt-get install python-pygame

answered Feb 16 '17 at 16:28

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As pygame appeared in the PIP reository I think it is the best way to do that for now. You can use pip on linux too but with *sudo* if installing to a global system interpreter. – Mar 08 '17 at 16:55

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 16 '17 at 08:18

I would recommend Gohlke's precompiled pythonlibs in wheel format :) pygame from Gohlke

I was never let down by those libraries and I used numpy, scipy, scikit-learn etc. (and pygame as well) extensively, which are one of the tougher to build on windows ;)

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