On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 8:00:14 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM, shiva upreti <katewinslet...@gmail.com> > 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. > >[...] > use pip (maybe inside a virtualenv). It'll chug for a while and > then give you what you need.
Umm, actually no... | ~# pip3 install kivy | Downloading/unpacking kivy | Downloading Kivy-1.9.0.tar.gz (16.2MB): 16.2MB downloaded | Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip-build-m40337r5/kivy/setup.py) egg_info for package kivy | Traceback (most recent call last): | File "<string>", line 17, in <module> | File "/tmp/pip-build-m40337r5/kivy/setup.py", line 173, in <module> | from Cython.Distutils import build_ext | ImportError: No module named 'Cython' | Cython is missing, its required for compiling kivy ! (on Fedora-21 where no kivy repo package is available) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list