solution for installing pygame

I have two computers, the one has windows system at home, the other has ubuntu system in my office. In each computer, I have two python, the one is normal python, the other is anaconda.

I try to install the pygame on both computer, then I got in chaos. My computer can not find it, even I installed pygame with pip several times.

After some effort, I got the solution:

download the pygame binary distribution for your operating system:

http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame

Windows:

• For normal python: pip install your_download_path\downloaded_pygame
• For anaconda python:
  • use the anaconda pip
  • pip install your_download_path\downloaded_pygame

Linux:

• Set your environment variable:
  • export VARIABLE
    for example:
    • export PATH = …
    • export PYTHONPATH =
    • append a path: export PATH = $PATH:other_path
• check your path:
  • echo $VARIABLE
• links:
  • http://linuxwiki.de/UmgebungsVariable
  • http://askubuntu.com/questions/250929/pythonpath-environment-variable
• use pip do the same like in windows
  • pip install your_download_path\downloaded_pygame
• or double click the downloaded .deb file

Setting in Eclipse:
In eclipse, you can set the python interpreter by yourself

• In menu: Project -> Properties ->  pyDev-Interpreter/Grammar -> Click here to configure an interpreter not listed -> New -> …
• you can also set PYTHONPATH: Project -> Properties -> pyDev-PYTHONPATH (you can also set the external library here)

check the loaded packages in project:

• In the “PyDev Package Explorer” viewer:
  • under all the project file, your can see your python interpreter name, double click, all the installed packages are listed here. 🙂