unable to install pygame_sdl2 via pip

Question

I am trying to install pygame-sdl2 on my ubuntu platform.

when I run command: pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ pygame_sdl2 on teerminal I get this error:

Looking in indexes: https://test.pypi.org/simple/
Collecting pygame_sdl2
  Using cached https://test-files.pythonhosted.org/packages/2f/f1/8dd343ae2d97c432cf1c81ca03d2d0472396f9d8e76c677aeae9ce2ec61d/pygame_sdl2-2.1.0.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    sh: 1: sdl2-config: not found
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-tXTEZE/pygame-sdl2/setup.py", line 39, in <module>
        parse_cflags([ "sh", "-c", "sdl2-config --cflags" ])
      File "setuplib.py", line 93, in parse_cflags
        output = subprocess.check_output(command, universal_newlines=True)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 219, in check_output
        raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output)
    subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['sh', '-c', 'sdl2-config --cflags']' returned non-zero exit status 127

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-tXTEZE/pygame-sdl2/

Answer 1

https://github.com/renpy/pygame_sdl2#building

To compile pygame_sdl2 from sources you need SDL2, SDL2_gfx, SDL2_image, SDL2_mixer, and SDL2_ttf libraries.

sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev libsdl2-dev \
    libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev \
    libjpeg-dev libpng-dev