August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
246 pages
4h 21m
English
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Installing Kivy
This recipe will teach you how to install Kivy on a personal computer, which is the first step in starting to develop great software.
Getting ready
We will assume that you already have GNU/Linux (preferably Ubuntu/Debian/Trisquel, we recommend the last one) and Python installed on it. Usually, Python is already installed on the aforementioned GNU/Linux distributions. We will also assume that you are using Python version 2.7 or higher.
How to do it…
- Add one of the Personal Package Archives (PPAs) that you prefer; our recommendation is the following stable one:
stable builds: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kivy- team/kivy nightly builds: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kivy- team/kivy-daily
- Update your package list using your package manager: ...