pygame install tips (in PyCharm)
Hello guys! Maybe you are trapped into a trouble that why the new installed Pycharm cannot install pygame module even the version of Pycharm is latest, please keep calm and here is a couple of tips!
- In current Terminal in Pycharm, check the version update, using:
pip list --outdated
. - Generally, you will find pip and setuptools are outdated, so we gonna update them.
- First using update command
pip install --upgrade pip
, you will find some problems. But you should do this action even though your pip is uninstalled and doesn’t exist. - If you follow the suggestion and try to type
pip install --user --upgrade pip
, you will find the Terminal tells you “Cannot open …\pip-script.py”. And other commands likepip list | more
cannot run either. - Then, you will realize that you should install pip. Here, use
easy_install pip
. After that, you are done with the most core part. - Next, check version using the first tip I told. You will find setuptools is still outdated. Now, use common update command
pip install --upgrade module_name
to update the module you want to update. (Here,pip install --upgrade setuptools
) - And then check the version again (
pip list --outdated
), and you will find everything is clear! - Finally, we enter
pip install pygame
into Terminal, and you will receive a successful notice. Now you can START PYTHON GAMES WITH PYGAME!