Hi

I'm trying to use Kivy with Python 3 on my LMDE box. The current version of Python installed on there is 3.3.3. Unfortunately Kivy with Python 3 requires 3.4.

I tried compiling a local copy of Python 3.4 and using a virtual environment variable but then could not install a working version of pygame in the virtual environment.

Is there a straightforward way to get Python 3.4 onto my LMDE installation, without breaking other things so that I can then install pygame and the other dependencies for Kivy?

Cheers
Amos

Hi,

I don't have an LMDE box at hand right now, but python3-kivy is in Debian testing, so installing it should be no more difficult than
(unless I'm missing something in regards to how LMDE uses Debian testing)

Evo2.

As LMDE doesn't directly follow Debian Testing and only has python 3.3 by default I had to add the debian testing repository to apt. Then install python3-kivy and the 215 other package updates (probably caused by upgrading python 3 to python 3.4). This also had the effect of removing KDE (or disabling it) I then installed kde-standard and all of its' supporting packages which re-enabled KDE for me.

I've now disabled the debian testing repository and hopefully everything will continue to work (although I shall probably have to re-enable it whenever I want to install/upgrade any python 3 packages).

Now to start testing/using Kivy. Any problems I'll let you know.