Hello, After some experimentation I was able to install pygame into a virtual environment in Linux Minth 17.1, which is very similar to Ubuntu in most respects.
I took the liberty to update the wiki entry for compilation with new instructions for setting this up. I also updated the dependencies to use libav-tools since ffmpeg is no longer available in the package manager. http://www.pygame.org/wiki/CompileUbuntu If anyone has the time to verify the instructions are accurate and actually work for someone other than myself that would be wonderful! Thanks, wkmanire