How are you using apt-get? Here is what I do:
sudo apt-get install python-pygame sudo apt-get build-dep python-pygame The first line installs pygame and everything needed to RUN it. The second line installs everything needed to recompile pygame from scratch. What are you doing differently? --- James Paige On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 07:36:14PM -0400, Evan Kroske wrote: > Yes, I have all the dev packages installed from apt-get. Unfortunately, > I'm starting to doubt whether I'm using apt-get right. I installed the > python-pygame package from apt-get to try it out; unfortunately, when I > try to run a game, the compiler says it can't find pygame. Am I missing a > step, like flushing the apt-get buffer or something? Maybe my installation > just hates pygame... :( > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Nirav Patel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Make sure you also have the dev packages, that is, libsdl-ttf-dev, > libsdl-image-dev, and so on. > Nirav > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Evan Kroske <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Marcus von Appen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> On, Tue Apr 14, 2009, Evan Kroske wrote: > >> > >> > Okay, I just re-installed SDL_mixer, and now I'm getting a > different but > >> > equally intimidating list of warnings (which I've attached). Is it > >> > possibly > >> > that pgreloaded isn't possible with my 64-bit Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex > box? > >> > I > >> > know python's supposed to be platform independent, but maybe some > of the > >> > dependencies aren't. > >> > > >> > I couldn't get the whole error this time because of the limited > terminal > >> > size; do you know of a command I can use to capture the error > output > >> > instead > >> > of the standard output? > >> > >> src/sdlttf/pgttf.h:25:21: error: SDL_ttf.h: No such file or directory > >> > >> Seems that you do not have the SDL_ttf development headers. Install > all > >> required -dev packages of the dependencies. > >> > >> Regards > >> Marcus > >> > > > > I just updated my apt-get package list then tried to update my > libsdl-ttf > > development installation through apt-get, but it said it was > up-to-date. I'm > > getting a smaller error now, but it still says it's missing SDL_ttf. > I've > > attached the latest smaller error. > > > > Thanks, > > Evan Kroske > >
