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flyingpenguin

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Registered: 2023-10-04

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No module named 'pygame' - installed "python" and "python-pygame"

On two separate Arch machines I can install packages python and python-pygame and still get the following error:

[mark@kramdesktop ~]$ python
Python 3.10.8 (main, Nov  1 2022, 14:18:21) [GCC 12.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pygame
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pygame'
>>> 

I checked, and verified that python-pygame depends on python, so I assume that this is the pygame made for python3, which is default now.

What am I missing?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,929

Re: No module named 'pygame' - installed "python" and "python-pygame"

Python 3.10.8 (main, Nov  1 2022, 14:18:21) [GCC 12.2.0] on linux

If you performa full system update to python-pygame 2.4.0-1/python 3.11.5-2 can you still reproduce the issue?

flyingpenguin

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Registered: 2023-10-04

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Re: No module named 'pygame' - installed "python" and "python-pygame"

Python 3.10.8 (main, Nov  1 2022, 14:18:21) [GCC 12.2.0] on linux

If you performa full system update to python-pygame 2.4.0-1/python 3.11.5-2 can you still reproduce the issue?

A full system upgrade solved it! Thank you! Can you explain to me why this helped?

loqs

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Re: No module named 'pygame' - installed "python" and "python-pygame"

python-pygame 2.4.0-1 (you did not provide the version/release) is built for python 3.11 while your system had python 3.10 installed (which is not the the current version/release) possibly due to a partial upgrade.