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I've spent hours for installing pygame, but it I didn't succeed.

I want a detailed installing instruction for pygame in python3.5 in Ubuntu16.04.

And I think it's a meaningful work for other people.

nbro
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You probably do not have pip3.5 installed, so I believe you it's not been easy. So one solution may be to start installing pip3.5. Based on this article on how to install pip3 in Ubuntu, here's a possible solution for your problem.

First install setuptools for Python 3

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools

Then install pip (which will include pip3.5):

sudo easy_install3 pip

After the previous two commands, you should have pip3.5 installed. Now you can simply do

sudo pip3.5 install pygame

I tried it on Ubuntu 16.04 and it worked.

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  • Did not work for me. My Ubuntu 18.4 tells me that "python3-setuptools is already the newest version (39.0.1-2)." but if I try the easy_install3 it says "easy_install3 : command not found". – Jan Schnupp Jul 25 '18 at 08:14
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I used the following to install pip3 on ubuntu 18.04 https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-pip-on-ubuntu-18.04/ Basically, I did the following... sudo apt update sudo apt install python3-pip

Then I was able to install pygame with the following command ... sudo pip3 install pygame

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