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Install the development libraries and dependencies needed to install pygame.

Download pygame from subversion, build, then install!

#install dependencies
sudo apt-get install python-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsmpeg-dev python-numpy subversion libportmidi-dev ffmpeg libswscale-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev
 
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame
 
cd pygame
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

Install instructions for getting pygame to work with python3.x

In the above commands replace 'python' with 'python3' except for 'python-numpy'.