Re: no module named kivy import error in ubuntu 14.04

2015-08-17 Thread rurpy--- via Python-list
On 08/17/2015 01:52 AM, Laura Creighton wrote: In a message of Sun, 16 Aug 2015 22:05:29 -0700, rurpy--- via Python-list writes: So I eventually found the kivy docs on their website where they list prerequisite packages for installing kivy on ubuntu. I'll translate those to hopefully the

Re: no module named kivy import error in ubuntu 14.04

2015-08-17 Thread Rustom Mody
On Monday, August 17, 2015 at 10:35:48 AM UTC+5:30, rurpy wrote: I hope someday Python gets a decent packaging/distribution story. You are in august company | The final question was about what he (Guido) hates in Python. Anything to do | with package distribution, he answered immediately. There

Re: no module named kivy import error in ubuntu 14.04

2015-08-17 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Sun, 16 Aug 2015 22:05:29 -0700, rurpy--- via Python-list write s: So I eventually found the kivy docs on their website where they list prerequisite packages for installing kivy on ubuntu. I'll translate those to hopefully the equivalent fedora package names, install them,

Re: no module named kivy import error in ubuntu 14.04

2015-08-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM, shiva upreti katewinslet...@gmail.com wrote: I am new to linux. I tried various things in attempt to install kivy. I installed python 2.7.10 (I think python3 was already installed in ubuntu 14.04). Then i downloaded kivy from

Re: no module named kivy import error in ubuntu 14.04

2015-08-16 Thread Rustom Mody
On Monday, August 17, 2015 at 7:30:14 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM, shiva upreti wrote: I am new to linux. I tried various things in attempt to install kivy. I installed python 2.7.10 (I think python3 was already installed in ubuntu 14.04). Then i

Re: no module named kivy import error in ubuntu 14.04

2015-08-16 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Sun, 16 Aug 2015 20:19:49 -0700, rurpy--- via Python-list write s: On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 8:00:14 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM, shiva upreti katewinslet...@gmail.com wrote: I am new to linux. I tried various things in attempt to

Re: no module named kivy import error in ubuntu 14.04

2015-08-16 Thread Dave Farrance
shiva upreti katewinslet...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am new to linux. I tried various things in attempt to install kivy. I installed python 2.7.10 Just to make clear what others have said -- replacing Ubuntu 14.04's system Python 2.7.6 is a bad idea and will break stuff, so if you really must have

Re: no module named kivy import error in ubuntu 14.04

2015-08-16 Thread MRAB
On 2015-08-16 20:16, shiva upreti wrote: Hi I am new to linux. I tried various things in attempt to install kivy. I installed python 2.7.10 (I think python3 was already installed in ubuntu 14.04). Then i downloaded kivy from https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/K/Kivy/Kivy-1.9.0.tar.gz,

no module named kivy import error in ubuntu 14.04

2015-08-16 Thread shiva upreti
Hi I am new to linux. I tried various things in attempt to install kivy. I installed python 2.7.10 (I think python3 was already installed in ubuntu 14.04). Then i downloaded kivy from https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/K/Kivy/Kivy-1.9.0.tar.gz, extracted it and tried to execute python

Re: no module named kivy import error in ubuntu 14.04

2015-08-16 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Sun, 16 Aug 2015 12:16:53 -0700, shiva upreti writes: I am still getting the error:ImportError: No module named kivy. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks. The preferred way to install kivy with ubuntu is to follow the instructions here:

Re: no module named kivy import error in ubuntu 14.04

2015-08-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, August 17, 2015 at 7:30:14 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM, shiva upreti wrote: I am new to linux. I tried various things in attempt to install kivy. I installed python

Re: no module named kivy import error in ubuntu 14.04

2015-08-16 Thread rurpy--- via Python-list
On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 8:00:14 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM, shiva upreti katewinslet...@gmail.com wrote: I am new to linux. I tried various things in attempt to install kivy. I installed python 2.7.10 (I think python3 was already installed in

Re: no module named kivy import error in ubuntu 14.04

2015-08-16 Thread rurpy--- via Python-list
On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 10:14:29 PM UTC-6, Laura Creighton wrote: In a message of Sun, 16 Aug 2015 20:19:49 -0700, rurpy--- via Python-list writes: On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 8:00:14 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: [...] use pip (maybe inside a virtualenv). It'll chug for a while