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I get this error when trying to install kivy.

kivy-1.8.9-cp34-none-win_amd64.whl is not supported wheel on this platform.

I run Python 3.4 and have installed these modules:

Pip 6.0.8
Pygame 1.9.2a0
Setuptools 14.3.1

Which is all the latest, so i have no idea what the problem is. I am so excited to create application, with kivy! Annoy me so much that i just can't install it.

I have been following this Tutorial by Sentdex, if anyone is familiar with it.

OS: Windows 8.1 Pro, 64bit

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RasmusGP
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  • Can you add information about your OS? Windows/OSX/Linux 32/64 bit? – cel Mar 24 '15 at 07:45
  • Just updated the question – RasmusGP Mar 24 '15 at 07:56
  • Can you have a look at this answer and see if `pip` correctly identifies your OS: http://stackoverflow.com/a/28111899/2272172 – cel Mar 24 '15 at 08:03
  • I did get it installed, but just tried to run a simple program and it throws me this error: `ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not valid Win32-program.` (translated from Danish) when i run this line: `from kivy.app import App` – RasmusGP Mar 24 '15 at 08:17
  • Are you 100% sure, that you are running a `64bit` system? All these errors usually turn up, when you try to install a `64bit` binary on a `32bit` system. – cel Mar 24 '15 at 08:22
  • 100% sure, i tried installing kivy before, but threw me the same error then i totally removed Python and installed it once again, which still don't work.. But it is "installed" now, i can do `Import kivy` but not `from kivy.app import App` – RasmusGP Mar 24 '15 at 08:32
  • Note, that the solution in the answer I linked before is actually cheating: Your python interpreter thinks that this is a 32bit installation and therefore refused to install a 64bit binary. Renaming the binary tricked the interpreter into assuming that this binary is 32 bit which it is not. Can you post what `sys.maxsize` prints? Maybe you installed a 32 bit version of python? I am not sure if that would raise that kind of error, though. – cel Mar 24 '15 at 08:41
  • Oh i okay i see. Well when i do `print(sys.maxsize)` it gives me this `2147483647` – RasmusGP Mar 24 '15 at 08:55
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/73649/discussion-between-cel-and-rasmusgp). – cel Mar 24 '15 at 08:57

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How to install Kivy on windows 10

  1. Download wheels from here (you have to download both pygame and kivy, if you are running 32 bit python3.5 then download Kivy-1.9.1+sdl2-cp35-none-win32.whl and pygame-1.9.2a0-cp35-none-win32.whl or choose the appropriate one for your needs.)
  2. Place installed wheels into same folder.
  3. Run (Windows) CMD as administrator and go into created folder by using cmd (where you placed your wheels)
  4. pip install by copy/paste name of the wheel and push the enter button. For example: pip install pygame-1.9.2a0-cp35-none-win32.whl and pip install Kivy-1.9.1+sdl2-cp35-none-win32.whl
  5. Now you can use Kivy

Good Luck!!

not2qubit
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I just wanted to add that I had a similar problem and found that the file name of the wheel is of dire importance. I had downloaded a duplicate copy of the wheel and Windows had auto-renamed it with the suffix "(2)". Using the original file name without this suffix did the trick. Hope that helps someone in the future.

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Try to change the python location and the python lib on the path in environment variable.

ex: path:

C:python/python3.4;
C:python/python3.4/lib
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