I'm new to python and kivy and I want to run my first kivy program. When I run the program I get this error:
/usr/bin/python3.4 /home/mmu/PycharmProjects/ShipControl/gui/gui.py
[INFO ] [Logger ] Record log in /home/mmu/.kivy/logs/kivy_15-11-29_0.txt
[INFO ] [Kivy ] v1.9.0
[INFO ] [Python ] v3.4.3+ (default, Oct 14 2015, 16:03:50)
[GCC 5.2.1 20151010]
[INFO ] [Factory ] 173 symbols loaded
[INFO ] [Image ] Providers: img_tex, img_dds, img_gif, img_sdl2, img_pil (img_ffpyplayer ignored)
[INFO ] [OSC ] using <multiprocessing> for socket
[INFO ] [Window ] Provider: sdl2(['window_egl_rpi'] ignored)
[CRITICAL ] [Window ] Unable to find any valuable Window provider at all!
egl_rpi - ImportError: cannot import name 'bcm'
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kivy/core/__init__.py", line 57, in core_select_lib
fromlist=[modulename], level=0)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kivy/core/window/window_egl_rpi.py", line 12, in <module>
from kivy.lib.vidcore_lite import bcm, egl
sdl2 - TypeError: expected bytes, str found
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kivy/core/__init__.py", line 65, in core_select_lib
cls = cls()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kivy/core/window/window_sdl2.py", line 121, in __init__
super(WindowSDL, self).__init__()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kivy/core/window/__init__.py", line 616, in __init__
self.create_window()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kivy/core/window/window_sdl2.py", line 171, in create_window
self.fullscreen, resizable, state)
File "kivy/core/window/_window_sdl2.pyx", line 60, in kivy.core.window._window_sdl2._WindowSDL2Storage.setup_window (kivy/core/window/_window_sdl2.c:1379)
x11 - ImportError: No module named 'kivy.core.window.window_x11'
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kivy/core/__init__.py", line 57, in core_select_lib
fromlist=[modulename], level=0)
[CRITICAL ] [App ] Unable to get a Window, abort.
Process finished with exit code 1
I've installed kivy using
sudo apt-get install python3-kivy
Am I missing something? When I search for these errors I've found people suggesting installing pygame but that seems to be a dead project?
As inclement said in his comment switching to kivy-daily resolved the problem! I had to do a dist-upgrade on my machine to resolve some dependencies.