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
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