Installing/upgrading TCOD 8.0.0 fails on Xubuntu 16.04 about python-tcod HOT 5 CLOSED

I'm familiar with this problem. Currently libtcod requires SDL 2.0.5, the version of SDL on Ubuntu 16.04 is too old and is missing the enum symbol SDL_PIXELFORMAT_RGBA32.

The installer uses sdl2-config so it's possible to build and install the latest version of SDL manually and that will be linked when you install from pip. Otherwise you can upgrade Ubuntu to a later version such as 18.04 LTS, which will have an up-to-date package of SDL.

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Hi, I had the exact same error. I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS so also must have SDL 2.0.4.

I found this thread and followed along faithfully, even trying the --enable-mir-shared=nothat is mentioned lower in the thread. Didn't work for me.

Someone more knowledgeable than I can hopefully use that thread to fix this install method correctly or to update python-tcod.

Ok, but I did get things to work using an 'untrustworthy' PPA build. Info on building SDL 2.0.8 from a dev's source is here. Looks like this is working for me.

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The break specifically happened in python-tcod 7.0.0, when libtcod was updated to 1.9.0. If you're unable to upgrade SDL then you could potentially stick with python-tcod 6.0.7.

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Thanks to the help! As per @lee2sman's suggestion Libsdl2-2.0.8 installed fine, though now the tcod installation is unable to find the sdl2-config file, while I'm unable to install libsdl2-dev. Technically my question has been answered however, so feel free to close the issue @HexDecimal.

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Scratch the last one, after fiddling with my package manager and getting libsdl2-dev to install, tcod 8.0.0 also installed successfully.

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