[Kivy] Kivy 2.2.0 not available. You have 2.1.0, but the application requires 2.2.0)

[mikepy]

Hi guys! Has anybody the same problem to install the kivy 2.2.0 update on Ubuntu? I have tried to update the library, but in VS Code the error remains. I have also tried to run my kivy app via the terminal but the problem remains. The error message is the following:

Exception has occurred: Exception
The version of Kivy installed on this system is too old. (You have 2.1.0, but the application requires 2.2.0)

This problem occured after I updated via

$ sudo update kivy

The 2.2.0 version is required to use the kivymd SegmentedButton component. I have tried to update the library based on the page https://kivy.readthedocs.io/en/master/ge...ation.html by issuing

$ python -m pip install "kivy[base] @ https://github.com/kivy/kivy/archive/master.zip"

which is mentioned there, but the version remains on 2.1.0. To be honest how can MIT create a library which pops up a message that the version is old, but do not provide the proper update. Has someone fixed it and how?

[Larz60+]

you can show current version with pip list | grep -i "kivy" from command line.
you should be able to install specific version:

1. remove current version: sudo apt-get remove python-kivy
   
2. sudo pip install kivy==<version>
   
3. if you run into missing dependencies:
   sudo apt-get install -y \
   libsdl2-dev \
   libsdl2-image-dev \
   libsdl2-mixer-dev \
   libsdl2-ttf-dev \
   libportmidi-dev \
   libswscale-dev \
   libavformat-dev \
   libavcodec-dev \
   zlib1g-dev
   
4. re-try step 2