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I downloaded an sd card image by Ubiquity Robotics which is an Ubuntu OS with ROS preinstalled onto my Raspberry Pi. This image creates a pifi access point for the Raspberry Pi and allows me to ssh into the Raspberry Pi by connecting my laptop to the access point created and doing ssh [email protected]. Now then I tried connecting to my home router by using pifi add <ssid> [<password>] and then sudo reboot. I was able to connect to my home router this way. So after this I tried downloading the library I needed, pygame. So i typed sudo apt-get install python3-pygame

And this is what i got:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package python3-pygame is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

So I went to a pygame site and tried downloading the library another way:

sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libfreetype6-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libportmidi-dev

And this is what I got:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'libpng12-dev' instead of 'libpng-dev'
E: Unable to locate package libsdl2-dev
E: Unable to locate package libsdl2-mixer-dev
E: Unable to locate package libsdl2-image-dev
E: Unable to locate package libsdl2-ttf-dev
E: Unable to locate package libportmidi-dev

Now I have no clue on what to do and how to go about downloading the library. Is there a way I can directly download the library into the sd card image or what. Help me out pls.

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First do this 

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Then you try doing

sudo apt-get install python3-pip ?

Then do 

sudo pip3 install pygame

If you are still getting the error related to SDL.

Then do this 

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev
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  • $\begingroup$ yeah it says WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "buildconfig/config.py" Using UNIX configuration... /bin/sh: 1: sdl-config: not found /bin/sh: 1: sdl-config: not found /bin/sh: 1: sdl-config: not found Hunting dependencies... WARNING: "sdl-config" failed! WARNING: "pkg-config freetype2" failed! Unable to run "sdl-config". Please make sure a development version of SDL is installed. ---------------------------------------- Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-bdoeu8j1/pygame/' – $\endgroup$
    – Mahir Ahmed-Al
    Sep 19, 2019 at 10:48
  • $\begingroup$ and then it said i have to upgrade pip becuz i had it in the sd card apparently and when i did it said Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pip", line 9, in <module> from pip import main ImportError: cannot import name main – $\endgroup$
    – Mahir Ahmed-Al
    Sep 19, 2019 at 10:49
  • $\begingroup$ can you please check the version of you python3 by doing this python3 --version $\endgroup$
    – JJerome
    Sep 19, 2019 at 23:29
  • $\begingroup$ Also check the version of pip3 by doing this pip3 --version $\endgroup$
    – JJerome
    Sep 19, 2019 at 23:31
  • $\begingroup$ my python version is python 3.5.2 and for the pip3 version I got pip 8.1.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.5) $\endgroup$
    – Mahir Ahmed-Al
    Sep 20, 2019 at 6:52

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