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A Noob here to python. I am running Ubuntu 16.04 (64bit) and I cant get Kivy to install properly for python3. I have tried (https://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation-linux.html) the installation process, but it doesn't pick up.
I wonder if I should try to install it via a .whl package (any source)? Please help, thanks!

Banana Republic
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  • Please make sure your virtual averment is active.
  • If not you can use bellow commands to install new virtual env.
  • else activate your env.
  1. sudo apt install python3-venv
  2. python3 -m venv demoenv
  3. source demoenv/bin/activate
  • Then do

pip list or pip freeze

  • Check your respective pip package is present or not (kivy).

  • if not then install it again on same virtual env active terminal.

  • then repeat above pip list command and verify your pip package.

Sudarshan Admuthe
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Kivy - Multimedia / Multitouch framework in Python (Python 3) (python3-kivy) is in the default repositories in Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, 19.10 and 20.04. To install it, open the terminal and type:

sudo apt install python3-kivy

This package contains the Python 3 compatible version of the library. There is also another Python 2 compatible version of the library named python-kivy.

python3-kivy has been dropped from the default repositories in Ubuntu 19.04 because of a software bug that also affects python3-kivy in Ubuntu 18.04. There is a workaround for this bug which is described in this answer.

karel
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