Cannot install PyGame

rammfire · October 11, 2022

Hello everyone!

I try to install game library for Python 3 (via pip) PyGame. After downloading package, i get message below:

pip install pygame
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting pygame
  Downloading pygame-2.1.2.tar.gz (10.1 MB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 10.1/10.1 MB 3.5 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [30 lines of output]
      
      
      WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "buildconfig/config.py"
      Using UNIX configuration...
      
      /bin/sh: 1: sdl2-config: not found
      /bin/sh: 1: sdl2-config: not found
      /bin/sh: 1: sdl2-config: not found
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-install-m1yp62ur/pygame_44d4c02831ed4c49940d26d640b55b6a/setup.py", line 359, in <module>
          buildconfig.config.main(AUTO_CONFIG)
        File "/tmp/pip-install-m1yp62ur/pygame_44d4c02831ed4c49940d26d640b55b6a/buildconfig/config.py", line 225, in main
          deps = CFG.main(**kwds)
        File "/tmp/pip-install-m1yp62ur/pygame_44d4c02831ed4c49940d26d640b55b6a/buildconfig/config_unix.py", line 188, in main
          DependencyProg('SDL', 'SDL_CONFIG', 'sdl2-config', '2.0', ['sdl']),
        File "/tmp/pip-install-m1yp62ur/pygame_44d4c02831ed4c49940d26d640b55b6a/buildconfig/config_unix.py", line 39, in __init__
          self.ver = config[0].strip()
      IndexError: list index out of range
      
      Hunting dependencies...
      
      ---
      For help with compilation see:
          https://www.pygame.org/wiki/Compilation
      To contribute to pygame development see:
          https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
      ---
      
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.