How can I install pygame for Python 3 on Debian jessie?

Question

I tried many times to install pygame for Python 3.5, but never succeeded. For example, I tried this but got the following error:

$ python3
>>> import pygame
enter code hTraceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named 'pygame'
>>>

Everything looks fine while building and installing, but I still don't see any changes. Did I forgot something? Is there something wrong?

Answer 1

Just do:

$ sudo pip3 install pygame

The problem was that, at the time, pygame wasn't packaged yet. This is no longer an issue.

Answer 2

I had the same problem on debian 8 and I upgraded pip:

sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

I have installed pygame using the code from Pygame website :

python3 -m pip install pygame --user