pygame 2.0.0 installation error on m1 macOS Big Sur

Question

I used python3 -m pip install pygame==2.0.0 via non-rosetta terminal and got these errors:

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
 command: /opt/homebrew/opt/python@3.9/bin/python3.9 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/var/folders/1q/4hfh5j_d715b0vm49lql6vl80000gn/T/pip-install-cqq2oily/pygame_3a311b7a5339480eb6bae08f88ff3fe6/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/private/var/folders/1q/4hfh5j_d715b0vm49lql6vl80000gn/T/pip-install-cqq2oily/pygame_3a311b7a5339480eb6bae08f88ff3fe6/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /private/var/folders/1q/4hfh5j_d715b0vm49lql6vl80000gn/T/pip-pip-egg-info-ig7pjjbc
     cwd: /private/var/folders/1q/4hfh5j_d715b0vm49lql6vl80000gn/T/pip-install-cqq2oily/pygame_3a311b7a5339480eb6bae08f88ff3fe6/

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pygame==2.0.0
ERROR: No matching distribution found for pygame==2.0.0

My homebrew, pip3 are all up to date.

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

I already had the same problem: the pip module only detected a pygame version older than 2.0.0.

It always installed pygame 1.9.6.

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Maybe you should:

1. Upgrade pip

I don't know how pip works, but I updated it by typing

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

Then, when I typed again

python3 -m pip install pygame

pip downloaded the 2.0.1 version of pygame correctly.

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2. Check your internet connection

Of course the modules come from Internet.