Pygame dependencies
http://www.pygame.org/wiki/CompileUbuntu Python 2.x #install dependencies sudo apt-get install mercurial python-dev python-numpy ffmpeg \ 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 # Grab source hg clone https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame # Finally build and install cd pygame python setup.py build sudo python setup.py install