thats all great and thank you - I do have another 2 linux laptops. what Im working with now is a windows 7 laptop.
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Peter Shinners <p...@shinners.org> wrote: > If you are on a Linux platform that allows you to "apt-get install > python-pygame" or "yum install pygame" or "pacman -S python2-pygame" then > that will be easiest. You may get an older build of Pygame. > > You won't be able to use Python installers, like "pip install pygame" > because it is pointed at even older versions that it cannot download. > > You mention you grabbed the zip file with the source. Start with that and > run a "python setup.py install", which will configure, compile, and install > pygame for you. You'll need to make sure you have the Pygame dependencies > installed, which is all the SDL-dev libraries, along with a few others. > > > > On 10/04/2013 08:37 AM, David wrote: > >> How exactly do you install pygame? I find nothing out there. >> >> I'm guessing - put the unzipped files in the python folder? >> >> copy the files >> in the Include to the python33/include >> and >> in the lib to the python33\lib >> >> that is, add them to the others in those folders? >> >> ?? >> >> -- >> David >> Running Linux since 1994 >> > > -- David Running Linux since 1994
