pygame not found

Question

I am running in ubuntu and I can code in python, without problem. I have tried to install pygame and to do make it so, I did:

sudo apt-get instal python-pygame

When I go into the python IDLE and write:

import pygame

I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in

ImportError: No module named pygame

What can I do to solve this problem? I am forgetting something, or doing something wrong?

Did you write sudo apt-get instal python-pygame or sudo apt-get *install* python-pygame — unutbu
Which version of python comes up when you type $ python? The (selected) output from dpkg -l "*python*" | grep "^ii" would be helpful, too. — msw

phihag phihag · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-16T10:58:25

apt-get will install pygame for the registered and pygame-package-supported Python versions. Execute

ls -1 /usr/lib/python*/site-packages/pygame/__init__.pyc

to find out which. On my old debian system, that prints

/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pygame/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pygame/__init__.pyc

That means if I'm not using either Python 2.4 or Python 2.5, pygame will not be available. The Python version your IDLE is using should be displayed at the top (you can also see it with import sys; print(sys.version)).

You can either manually install pygame or try to add the installed version with

import sys
sys.path.append('/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/')
import pygame

Depending on the complexity of the loaded module(pygame in your case), this might cause some problems later though.

pygame not found

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