Unable To Install Kivy On Macos10.15 Using Pip

So I have been using Tkinter up until now to build my GUI's for Python Projects. I want more functionality so - along comes Kivy. I am running MacOS10.15.3. I have Python 3.8.1 i

Solution 1:

You can download latest kivy snapshot wheels here:

https://kivy.org/downloads/ci/osx/kivy/

(cp38 in filename indicates it's meant to be used with Python3.8)

and then just run

pip install [path to wheel file]

Solution 2:

$ brew uninstall python@3.8

When I follow this instruction on the Kivy download site:

    $ brew install pkg-config sdl2 sdl2_image sdl2_ttf sdl2_mixer gstreamer

For some reason it reinstalls Python@3.8. So, using homebrew, I uninstalled Python@3.8, uninstalled the sdl2 packages, and uninstalled Cython.

Then I was able to run the code below to get it to work properly:

$ brew install python@3.7$ python3 -m pip install Cython --user
    $ python3 -m pip install kivy --user

This solved my problem. Hope this helps someone.

Solution 3:

To fix this - I removed Python 3.8 from my Mac and installed the latest version of Python 3.7 in its place.

I then run the commands listed on Kivy Install instructions for using Homebrew which are:

$ brew install pkg-config sdl2 sdl2_image sdl2_ttf sdl2_mixer gstreamer
$ pip install Cython==0.29.10$ pip install kivy

Solution 4:

Run these 2 commands in terminal:

rm -rf $(brew --repo homebrew/core)
brew tap homebrew/core