I cant install kivy through pip

Question

Im getting this error when installing kivy through pip, any help on this issue?

I would provide more info on the error if I could, but I don't even know what the error is called or why I am getting it.

Answer 1

Download the respective wheel file for your architecture, os and Python version from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Kivy and install the downloaded wheel through pip, as documented in https://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation-windows.html#what-are-wheels-pip-and-wheel

excerpt from that Kivy docs,

In Python, packages such as Kivy can be installed with the python package manager, pip. Some packages such as Kivy require additional steps, such as compilation, when installing using the Kivy source code with pip. Wheels (with a .whl extension) are pre-built distributions of a package that has already been compiled and do not require additional steps to install.

When hosted on pypi one installs a wheel using pip, e.g. python -m pip install kivy. When downloading and installing a wheel directly, python -m pip install wheel_file_name is used, such as:

python -m pip install C:\Kivy-1.9.1.dev-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl