pygame Getting started with pygame Installing pygame

Example

On windows

1. Navigate to http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame – an unofficial site providing windows binaries of open-source python packages for the official CPython distribution by Christoph Gohlke.

2. Download the appropriate pygame .whl file according to your installed python version. (The file is named something like pygame -<pygame version> - <python version>- win32.whl)

3. Run

    pip install your-pygame-package.whl
   

   inside your terminal, bash or consol.
   Note: if pip is not found in PATH try to run python -m pip install your-pygame-package.whl

4. Check if you can import pygame as a python module

   import pygame
   

   If you do not get an error, you have correctly installed pygame on your computer :)

On linux

1. Open your terminal and run

   sudo apt-get install python-pygame
   

   Note: This will install pygame for python2

2. Try to import pygame inside

   import pygame
   

   If you do not get an error, you have correctly installed pygame on your linux system :)

On macOS

There are two ways to install it on mac:

Method 1

Go to the Pygame downloads page and download the mac installer. Run it, and it should install Pygame on your Mac.

Method 2

Install Homebrew:

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

Then use Homebrew to install Python 2.7.12 and Pygame:

brew install python; brew install homebrew/python/pygame

Now run Python in your terminal and try import pygame. If it does not say anything, it's installed successfully.