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boswbr25

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Registered: 2012-02-29

Posts: 63

"target not found: python-pygame" After Package Installed

Hi,

I am having problems getting a game called "Oil Worker" working because of a problem with the python-pygame package.  When I try to start the game, I get an error saying "ImportError: No module named pygame".  I can't figure out why because I checked and the python-pygame package is installed.

While trying to figure out a way to fix this problem, I went onto AUR and tried looking for a different version of pygame.  One PKGBUILD I found was pgu, which is a collection of pygame utilities and libraries.  I tried to make the package but it sees python-pygame as a missing dependency and then says "error: target not found: python-pygame" when it tries to install it.

I tried reinstalling the python-pygame package and making the pgu package again but still got the same error.  I'm now wondering if something is not working right during the python-pygame install that is causing it to not be found by the game and show up as a missing dependency  when I try to make the pgu package.

Anyone got any ideas what may be causing the game not to find the pygame module?

Thanks,
~Boz~

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 12,861

Re: "target not found: python-pygame" After Package Installed

Oil Worker last version appears to be from 2008, so chances are big it uses python 2 .

check arch wiki on Python2

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boswbr25

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Registered: 2012-02-29

Posts: 63

Re: "target not found: python-pygame" After Package Installed

Thanks for the help. But man, after reading the wiki describing changing the first line in the file to #!/usr/lib/python2, I thought I had this figured out for sure.  Major disappointment .

I am still getting the same error ("ImportError: No module named pygame") when trying to launch the game.  I looked into the python-pygame package more and found that it is installed within the /usr/lib/python2.7 directory so I would have to think it is set up to use python2.

I will just give up on the game soon but it is just frustrating bc so many of these games that don't work at first and then I can usually fix it with the littlest thing like creating a link from the old version of a library to the new version.  I am assuming there is something stupid that could be fixed in 2 seconds causing this game not to work too.

Any other ideas?

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: "target not found: python-pygame" After Package Installed

It could be that Oil Worker is not searching the right directories,
This webpage Appending to Your Python Path describes a way to append directories to the puthon search path.

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boswbr25

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Registered: 2012-02-29

Posts: 63

Re: "target not found: python-pygame" After Package Installed

Both times I think I have the problem solved after reading your post and then looking at the config file, but I still haven't got it working.  The sys.path.append was searching "lib", not "/usr/lib" so I thought for sure that was the problem. 

After changing this to make it look in the directory where pygame is housed, I got a new error saying the following:
"File '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygame/__init__.py', line 95, in from pygame.base import *
ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (PyInit_base)"

Anyways, its looking like this one won't be as easy of a fix as I thought it would be.  I think I will just leave it be unless someone knows what the issue is. 

Thanks for all the help.

~Boz~