On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, August 17, 2015 at 7:30:14 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM, shiva upreti wrote: >> > I am new to linux. I tried various things in attempt to install kivy. I >> > installed python 2.7.10 (I think python3 was already installed in ubuntu >> > 14.04). Then i downloaded kivy from >> > https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/K/Kivy/Kivy-1.9.0.tar.gz, >> > extracted it and tried to execute "python setup.py" inside the kivy folder. >> >> As Laura said, the preferred way to install under Ubuntu would be to >> use apt-get. But if you want to install directly from PyPI, the best >> way is to use pip. Those are two package managers, which remove from >> you the hassle of hunting down all the different dependencies, like >> Cython. Try apt-get first, and if that doesn't do what you're looking >> for, use pip (maybe inside a virtualenv). It'll chug for a while and >> then give you what you need. > > Its not vanilla apt-get but ppa-apt-get (as Laura's link indicates)
I didn't actually click the link. But it's still apt-get, just with an additional repository. In any case, it's way better to use a package manager (either system-provided or Python-provided) than to do everything manually. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
