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downloading pygame wheel or MSI type
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downloading pygame wheel or MSI type
#1
I would like to download pygame - I have python 3.4 installed 32bit - but the version of pygame is asking whether I want type wheel or MSI - can you explain these to me please
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#2
MSI is a Microsoft Installer program, that installs pre-compiled modules
since it is an executable, you just double-click and wait for it to finish.
A wheel is installed using pip from the command line, and is sometimes
better as it may install dependencies (if missing) as well
you must change the current directory to the one containing the wheel before running pip
with a command like
pip install wheel_name
I usually try pip first, I don't know why I just do. (Sounds like a song)
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#3
Wheel(.whl) is okay.
From Gohlke Pygame
If not set up environment Variables Path,start cmd cd into Scripts folder.
Eg wheel file is placed in Scripts folder:
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393]
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C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd\
C:\>cd python34\scripts

C:\Python34\Scripts>pip install pygame-1.9.3-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl
Processing c:\python34\scripts\pygame-1.9.3-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl
Installing collected packages: pygame
Successfully installed pygame-1.9.3

C:\Python34\Scripts>
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#4
Thank you
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