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Matthias
Matthias

Reputation: 13

Proper way of installation of Kivy 1.10+ with Python 3 on Raspberry Pi 3 with 7" Touchscreen Display

I'm searching around for quite a long time for a description of a proper way of installation of Kivy 1.10.0 on a Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspbian Stretch Lite and an attached 7" Raspberry Pi 3 Touch Display. My problem is that there is a description on the Kivy Site for Python 2.7 but there is no update on this page for the Python 3 way. In this thread a way is shown for Python 3.2 but it seems to be not complete. On this page the way is also shown for 2.7 only. I know that there is a distribution that sums all up but I want to install it on an origin Raspbian.

Cut a long story short: Where can I find a complete list of all dependencies and requirements for a working Kivy application on a RPi3 + 7" Touch?

Thanks a lot for your support in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5859

Answers (2)

Olti
Olti

Reputation: 11

Came across the solution for installing kivy on Raspberry Pi 3+ here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kivy-users/OSpnIv4a_S4

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev \
 pkg-config libgl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev \
 python-setuptools libgstreamer1.0-dev git-core \
 gstreamer1.0-plugins-{bad,base,good,ugly} \
 gstreamer1.0-{omx,alsa} python-dev
(Note that I stripped off the "cython" from the above command)
sudo pip install cython==0.20.1
sudo pip install git+https://github.com/kivy/kivy.git@7e789b2

Worked perfectly for me after struggling with dependencies for a couple of days of try and fail.

Upvotes: 1

PalimPalim
PalimPalim

Reputation: 3058

I followed the steps decribed here for "Manual installation (On Raspbian Jessie)" from kivy itself, which you already linked. Replace pip with pip3. If I remember correctly, that's all I did.

Also, first try to upgrade Cython without a specific version, as it might be that it will install a higher version.

(It takes a long time, prepare yourself to wait for a while...)

See comments for fix to another problem

Upvotes: 1

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