Homebrew

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Installation

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

Installing pygame

$ brew install libvorbis sdl sdl_mixer sdl_image sdl_gfx sdl_ttf 
$ brew tap samueljohn/python
$ brew tap homebrew/headonly
$ brew tap homebrew/science
$ cd /usr/local/Library/Taps/homebrew-science
$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-science.git
$ cd -
$ sudo easy_install pip
$ sudo pip-2.7 install nose
$ brew install --HEAD smpeg

If smpeg fails with the following error when brew install is run with -v then you need to edit the formula

==> ./autogen.sh
aclocal: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
sh: autom4te: command not found
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 127

$ brew edit smpeg

Find the line that reads

  depends_on :automake

and add immediately below it

  depends_on :autoconf

then save and quit the formula editor. Retry the brew install --HEAD smpeg command. Finally, get pygame to install (together with all it's dependencies).

$ brew install pygame

Once this has installed, you will need to edit your .bash_profile to set the PYTHONPATH environment variable so the default python can find the pygame module.

$ cat >> ~/.bash_profile <<'EOF'
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH
EOF