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How do I install Pygame in virtualenv?

rated 0 times [ 14] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 15802 / 1 Year ago, sat, may 13, 2023, 3:30:22

In installed python-virtualenv, because this question said I should use virtualenv to install pygame. However, I'm not really sure how that's accomplished.

What I did (following these instructions):

virtualenv --no-site-packages --distribute -p /usr/bin/python3.3 ~/.virtualenvs/pywork3 --no-pip

And then I don't know where to go.

How do I install pygame to be used in the virtualenv?

Edit: I followed GuySoft's instructions, and everything installed great. However, when I tried import pygame in python3, I got the following error:

>>> import pygame

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

  File "/home/alden/.virtualenvs/pywork3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/pygame/__init__.py", line 95, in <module>

from pygame.base import *

ImportError: /home/alden/.virtualenvs/pywork3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/pygame/base.cpython-33m.so: undefined symbol: PyCObject_Check

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answered 1 Year ago stantildlike · Accepted Answer

I suggest you have pip in your virualenv, its useful.

Note: must have pygame's dependencies installed, you can find out what they are and install them with:

sudo apt-get build-dep python-pygame

Then try this:

rm -rf ~/.virtualenvs/pywork3 #clean what you have there

mkdir -p ~/.virtualenvs/pywork3

virtualenv --no-site-packages --distribute -p /usr/bin/python3.3 ~/.virtualenvs/pywork3

. ~/.virtualenvs/pywork3/bin/activate

pip install pygame