Installation

Make sure you have pip installed. For Linux, this is usually done with the distro package manager (example: sudo apt-get install python3-pip). For Windows and macOS, have a look at the pip documentation.

Note

The actual pip command may vary between platforms and Python versions. Substitute the correct one for usages in these examples. Some common variants for Python 3.x are: pip3, pip3.x, and pip-3.x.

Also, in some cases you may need to manually add pip’s location to the ‘path’ environment variable.

Upgrade pip and setuptools:

pip install --upgrade pip setuptools

Install with:

pip install simpleaudio

Linux Dependencies

The Python 3 and ALSA development packages are required for pip to build the extension. For Debian variants (including Raspbian), this will usually get the job done:

sudo apt-get install -y python3-dev libasound2-dev