Installing Kivy and Python on Linux
(see also Windows Instructions)
Fedora 25 or 26
You have to first install the rpmfusion repo or other repo with ffmpeg-libs. Then you can install Kivy using the following commands using Terminal:
#kivy says install:
#(khrplatform-devel is not found though so use android-opengl-api instead)
sudo dnf install \
make \
mercurial \
automake \
gcc \
gcc-c++ \
SDL_ttf-devel \
SDL_mixer-devel \
android-opengl-api \
mesa-libGLES \
mesa-libGLES-devel \
gstreamer-plugins-good \
gstreamer \
gstreamer-python \
mtdev-devel \
python-devel \
python-pip
sudo dnf install patch
#may or may not be needed:
sudo dnf group install "C Development Tools and Libraries"
#prevent missing redhat-hardened-cc1 error:
sudo dnf install redhat-rpm-config
#is in Ubuntu instructions on kivy.org, and seemed to get rid of some errors:
sudo dnf install git
#these were derived from the Ubuntu instructions:
sudo dnf install python-devel ffmpeg-libs SDL2-devel SDL2_image-devel \
SDL2_mixer-devel SDL2_ttf-devel portmidi-devel libavdevice \
libavc1394-devel zlibrary-devel ccache mesa-libGL mesa-libGL-devel
sudo python -m pip install --upgrade pip
sudo python -m pip install cython
sudo python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
sudo python -m pip install docutils pygments
#had error still --see https://github.com/SerpentAI/SerpentAI/issues/58
#so added the following line (other method [using git version] on the page above didn't work):
sudo python -m pip install Cython==0.26
#however, be aware, kivy.org says:
#Different versions of Kivy have only been tested up to a certain Cython version. It may or may not work with a later version.
#Kivy Cython
#1.8 0.20.2
#1.9 0.21.2
#1.9.1 0.23
#1.10.1 0.25
sudo python -m pip install kivy --no-cache-dir