Installing pygame module in anaconda mac

Question

I have Anaconda installed on my mac. And it has messed with my pygame module.

I tried following this tutorial and replacing pip3 install pygame with conda install pygame. I have tried conda install pip and then pip install pygame yet i get the following error:

Collecting pygame
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pygame
  Some externally hosted files were ignored as access to them may be unreliable (use --allow-external pygame to allow).
  No distributions at all found for pygame

(ideas i got from this thread)

Using the "pip install pygame" worked before i did the "conda install pip" however my default python is now the anaconda one and no longer accesses pygame. Using which pip gives /Users/jensdonlin/anaconda/bin/pip

Does anyone have some suggestions that would allow anaconda's version of python3 to access pygame?

Perhaps the answer involves use --allow-external pygame to allow but im not really sure how to use that.

Answer 1

After 2 days of messing around with macports and homebrew with no joy, the instructions here worked for me using Anaconda Python 2.7.10 on a mac. Echoing them here in case the linked site ever disappears!

First open up terminal and enter these two lines:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew install sdl sdl_ttf sdl_image sdl_mixer portmidi

If you don't have binstar installed type:

conda install binstar

At this point it might tell you that The 'binstar' conda package has been renamed to 'anaconda-client' and that you have to type this instead:

conda install anaconda-client

Just do whatever it tells you to. Then finally, type:

conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/quasiben pygame

and hopefully you're done!

Answer 2

The problem here is that the pygame developers have not uploaded pygame to PyPI. So to install it, you will have to download it and pip install the downloaded source, as described in the tutorial you linked. You can do this within the Anaconda Python. Note that in the Anaconda Python, even if it is Python 3, pip is just called pip, not pip3.