I did this in Ubuntu and it worked for me with Python 3.4:

I ran a command which apparently upgraded pip and setuptools to the latest version, according to this guide in the docs, but did it as a superuser. It might end up not being strictly necessary:

sudo pip install -U pip setuptools

Then, I ran the install command for Pygame as a superuser as well:

sudo pip install pygame

Matt have you tried installing it with pip:

pip3 install pygame

For user based installs, check out:

https://www.pygame.org/wiki/GettingStarted

pip3 install's make it easy to import

The reason you are not able to import pygame into your python interpreter is because you are installing it for python2 and starting the python3 interpreter(Ubuntu 13.10 uses python3 by default).

To install pygame for python2(your version is 2.7.5), do this on a terminal(Ctrl+Alt+t):

sudo apt-get install python-pygame

and then start the python2 interpreter

python2

and then try to import pygame as

import pygame

To set python2 as your default interpreter, you can set an alias in your bash_aliases file. To do this, open a terminal and type:

nano ~/.bash_aliases

This may open an empty file, depending upon whether you have set an alias before and then type

alias python='python2'

Do not change symlinks in /usr/bin/python3, since this may break many application in Ubuntu 13.10 which use python3 vociriferously.

You can install the package as Administrator, by following these steps:

1.Right click on the Command Prompt icon 2.Select the option: Run This Program As An Administrator 3.Run the command: pip install pygames

Instead of you can use the command pip install --user pygames