Install Pygame Zero or Pygame in Python3

pygame is a free and open-source cross-platform library for the development of multimedia applications like video games using Python. It uses the Simple DirectMedia Layer library and several other popular libraries to abstract the most common functions, making writing these programs a more intuitive task.

On Ubuntu Linux

There is a .deb package of Pygame for Python 3 available in this PPA.

1. Add the PPA to your system sources:

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thopiekar/pygame
   

2. Update the package list:

   sudo apt-get update
   

3. Install the package:

   sudo apt-get install python3-pygame
   

2. Install Pygame Zero with pip:

   pip3 install pgzero

On Windows

1. Install Pygame for Python 3. This is available as a .msi installer from the Pygame Bitbucket.

2. Install Pygame Zero with pip:

   pip install pgzero

On OSX

homebrew is a package manager for OSX. It will allow you to install nearly everything you need to get Pygame Zero up and running.

All commands will be entered in a Terminal window.

1. Install homebrew:

   ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
   

2. Install Python 3:

   brew install python3
   

3. Install the following dependencies, needed for compiling Pygame:

   brew install sdl sdl_mixer sdl_sound sdl_ttf
   

4. Now pygame can be installed easily using Python’s own package manager, pip3:

   pip3 install hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame
   

5. Finally, install Pygame Zero!

   pip3 install pgzero

On Raspberry Pi

pgzero is likely to make an appearance in the Raspbian repo before long; until then...

(Starting from a vanilla noobs-install Raspbian)

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pip
3. sudo pip-3.2 install pgzero

On Debian 8 (Jessie)

(There is a .deb package of Pygame for Python 3 in Debian unstable “Sid”. On Jessie it’s relatively simply to compile Pygame yourself.)

1. Install the dependencies:

   sudo apt-get install mercurial python3-dev python3-numpy libav-tools \
       libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsmpeg-dev \
       libsdl1.2-dev  libportmidi-dev libswscale-dev libavformat-dev \
       libavcodec-dev build-essential
   

2. Grab Pygame source:

   hg clone https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame
   

3. Build Pygame:

   cd pygame
   python3 setup.py build
   

4. Install Pygame:

   sudo python3 setup.py install
   

5. Install Pygame Zero with pip:

   pip3 install pgzero