How do i install pygame in python3.8?

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Collecting pygame Using cached pygame-1.9.6.tar.gz (3.2 MB) ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: command: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-lva53fx4/pygame/setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-lva53fx4/pygame/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-install-lva53fx4/pygame/pip-egg-info cwd: /tmp/pip-install-lva53fx4/pygame/ Complete output (29 lines):

WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "buildconfig/config.py"
Using UNIX configuration...

/bin/sh: 1: sdl-config: not found
/bin/sh: 1: sdl-config: not found
/bin/sh: 1: sdl-config: not found
Package freetype2 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `freetype2.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'freetype2' found
Package freetype2 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `freetype2.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'freetype2' found
Package freetype2 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `freetype2.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'freetype2' found
/bin/sh: 1: freetype-config: not found
/bin/sh: 1: freetype-config: not found
/bin/sh: 1: freetype-config: not found

Hunting dependencies...
WARNING: "sdl-config" failed!
WARNING: "pkg-config freetype2" failed!
WARNING: "freetype-config" failed!
Unable to run "sdl-config". Please make sure a development version of SDL is installed.
----------------------------------------

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:

Does this answer your question? [pygame installation: sdl-config command not found](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19579528/pygame-installation-sdl-config-command-not-found) — asantz96, Aug 18 '20 at 06:51

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 18 '20 at 06:50

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for this moment there is no official version. There is a dev version:

pip install pygame==2.0.0.dev6

but I recommend you go back to 3.7 and wait.

answered Aug 18 '20 at 06:50

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 04 '20 at 08:06

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Use this sudo apt-get install python3-pygame

edited Sep 04 '20 at 08:06

desertnaut

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answered Aug 18 '20 at 07:02

shyam_gupta

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How do i install pygame in python3.8?

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