It’s probably easier just to install the (up-to-date) package from Ubuntu. To get it to work with pip, you need to install (for me) these packages:
sudo aptitude install libmikmod2 libportmidi0 libportmidi-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsmpeg0 libsmpeg-dev libv4l-dev python-dev
Make pygame-pip.diff look like this patch:
diff -ur pygame-1.9.1release/config_unix.py pygame-1.9.1release-patched/config_unix.py --- pygame-1.9.1release/config_unix.py 2011-07-03 21:34:58.291201138 +0200 +++ pygame-1.9.1release-patched/config_unix.py 2011-07-03 21:49:20.035474295 +0200 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ #these get prefixes with '/usr' and '/usr/local' or the $LOCALBASE origincdirs = ['/include', '/include/SDL', '/include/SDL', '/include/smpeg' ] -origlibdirs = ['/lib','/lib64','/X11R6/lib'] +origlibdirs = ['/lib','/lib64','/X11R6/lib','/lib/i386-linux-gnu'] def confirm(message): "ask a yes/no question, return result" Only in pygame-1.9.1release-patched: config_unix.py~ diff -ur pygame-1.9.1release/src/camera.h pygame-1.9.1release-patched/src/camera.h --- pygame-1.9.1release/src/camera.h 2011-07-03 21:34:58.291201138 +0200 +++ pygame-1.9.1release-patched/src/camera.h 2011-07-03 21:02:01.453398517 +0200 @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ #include /* for videodev2.h */ - #include + #include #include #endif
Then download, patch and install:
wget http://www.pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.1release.tar.gz tar -zxf pygame-1.9.1release.tar.gz patch -p0 < pygame-pip.diff pip install pygame-1.9.1release.tar.gz/ # note slash is important
Several places suggest that NumPy is required too, but I didn’t need it (yet).