Trouble importing Pygame

colts18 · 01-17-2011, 12:45 PM

I am new to pygame and Linux and I am using Red Hat Linux and I cannot import pygame. I thought I installed it but when I open up Python IDLE It says "No module named pygame". Does anyone know what is wrong?? I downloaded pygame1.9.1.release.tar.gz from http://www.pygame.org I might not have installed it or maybe I need something else too, I don't know.

lonerider · 01-18-2011, 07:57 AM

Did you extract the tar?
If not you will have to first extract the tar using the cmd
tar -xzvf pygame1.9.1.release.tar.gz
then transfer the contents to the directory where your modules reside.

MTK358 · 01-18-2011, 08:49 AM

Or even better, install pygame using Ubuntu Software Center (according to your icon, you seem to be using Ubuntu). That way, it will be tracked by your package manager.

colts18 · 01-19-2011, 03:52 PM

I don't know what I did but I got Pygame for Python 2.6 working so I will just use that are there any differences?

Snark1994 · 01-19-2011, 05:15 PM

Differences to using it under Python 3.1, you mean (or another version of python)? There shouldn't be, as far as I'm aware the Pygame code will be the same, only some of the basic Python syntax will have changed

MTK358 · 01-19-2011, 05:38 PM

If PyGame isn't edited to follow the slightly different syntax, Python 3 will fail to run it.

But if the OP uses Python 2, PyGame for Python 2 will work, of course.

Snark1994 · 01-20-2011, 09:37 AM

I had assumed the OP had downloaded the correct version for the version of python they were using. http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml has windows binary packages for both 3.1 and several 2.x, so I presume it supports both - but perhaps the previous difficulties were caused by using different pygame/python versions