Install Kivy
Contents
Intro
This documents my attempt ( successful ) to install Kivy on a Python system under Anaconda Spyder. Just some quick notes. See history for date info.
Install Kivy on 2.7 installation of Spyder. Actually worked, but not right off. Next Kivy - First Impressions
First Google
- looks like might be good try
https://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation-windows.html
- nice music no words, not my cup of tea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch_ILDBEaok&feature=youtu.be
First try
https://kivyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/master/usage.html#install-to-existing-python
This is where my python lives:
D:\apps\Anaconda
D:\apps\Anaconda\KivyInstaller-master.zip
now running in cmd.exe
Ran as directed and after a lot of work got error messages, including that it failed. I have a log.
Tried again this time was going to answere admistritor n, but got quick error out.
Tried uninstall both with and without admin priv. for cmd.exe
So now I seem stuck with a partial installation.
Try again
looks like might be good try https://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation-windows.html
Will use cmd and give admin rights to it.
this seemed to work but when I tried ( as stated in the docs ) -- take it back I missed a step ( i looked carefully at
the logs which I try to always save.
Now will retry
That’s it. You should now be able to import kivy in python or run a basic example: python share\kivy-examples\demo\showcase\main.py
and it did "work"
Assuming Kivy is Somewhere on my system
Found other examples on git hub at https://github.com/kivy/kivy Downloaded unzipped, but when I tried to run the first line import kivy fails.
Now a couple of hours into trying to install this f*** and wonder why it should be so obscure. Why use when even the install does not seem to work? So my fault -- works well enough to test some more
Continued Experiments
- As I do them. Ran a simple Kivy demo and must admit it does look nice in a slick multi media sort of way.