The installation process that worked consisted of the following steps:
#install dependencies
sudo apt-get install mercurial python3-dev python3-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
Download the latest pygame from repository: https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/wiki/VersionControl
run: python3 config.py
run: 2to3 setup.py -w
run: python3 setup.py build
run: sudo checkinstall python3 setup.py install
Tags: 2ti3, checkinstall, pygame, python3