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how to install kivy in ubuntu

Install kivy using  python in ubuntu 18.0:

first install python:

$ sudo pip install pygame

because kivy use pygame library to play video and play game with multi touch system.

sudo apt install libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev

 To solve the some error which is occur to install kivy like 

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL
    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
     error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
   
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Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-te7d7diq/kivy/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-b64enjrj-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-te7d7diq/kivy/


$ sudo apt update 

For update the apt repository list 

$ sudo pip install  kivy


omprakash@omprakash:~$ sudo pip3 install kivy
The directory '/home/omprakash/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
The directory '/home/omprakash/.cache/pip' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and caching wheels has been disabled. check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
Collecting kivy
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7d/8b/89d220b7f96dc2662b81319067f679b4cd73cda66f4aa850db5b6c6cfc7a/Kivy-1.10.1.tar.gz (24.3MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 24.3MB 53kB/s
Requirement already satisfied: Kivy-Garden>=0.1.4 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from kivy)
Requirement already satisfied: docutils in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from kivy)
Requirement already satisfied: pygments in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from kivy)
Requirement already satisfied: requests in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from Kivy-Garden>=0.1.4->kivy)
Installing collected packages: kivy
  Running setup.py install for kivy ... done
Successfully installed kivy-1.10.1

 

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