kivy: Kivy won't install on Python 3.11.0

FYI:

PRE-RELEASE VERSION NOW AVAILABLE: A pre-release 2.2.0.dev0 version is now available via PyPi:

pip install kivy --upgrade --pre

NIGHTLY WHEELS:

Even if we did not released Kivy 2.2.0 yet (and a new release might not happen soon, as there’s still some work to do), there are nighly wheels available with Python 3.11 support. This is also a nice way to help us to test the latest cutting-edge features, bug fixes, and improvements.

From Kivy Docs: Nightly & pre-release wheels:

This will only install a development version of Kivy if one was released to PyPi. Instead, one can also install the latest cutting-edge Nightly wheels from the Kivy server with:

python -m pip install kivy --pre --no-deps --index-url  https://kivy.org/downloads/simple/
python -m pip install "kivy[base]" --pre --extra-index-url https://kivy.org/downloads/simple/

It is done in two steps, because otherwise pip may ignore the wheels on the server and install an older pre-release version from PyPi.

I will update this issue when we will land in RC phase for 2.2.0 😀

Kivy won’t install in a venv created by Python 3.11.0 (released yesterday).

(venv_3.11.0) C:\Users\abcde\Python>python -m pip install "kivy[base]" kivy_examples
Collecting kivy[base]
  Downloading Kivy-2.1.0.tar.gz (23.8 MB)
     ---------------------------------------- 23.8/23.8 MB 3.9 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Installing build dependencies ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × pip subprocess to install build dependencies did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [9 lines of output]
      Collecting setuptools
        Using cached setuptools-65.5.0-py3-none-any.whl (1.2 MB)
      Collecting wheel
        Downloading wheel-0.37.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (35 kB)
      Collecting cython!=0.27,!=0.27.2,<=0.29.28,>=0.24
        Downloading Cython-0.29.28-py2.py3-none-any.whl (983 kB)
           -------------------------------------- 983.8/983.8 kB 3.7 MB/s eta 0:00:00
      ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement kivy_deps.gstreamer_dev~=0.3.3 (from versions: none)
      ERROR: No matching distribution found for kivy_deps.gstreamer_dev~=0.3.3
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× pip subprocess to install build dependencies did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

have you solved this problem

I got it working with python 3.11 by installed the latest cutting-edge: python -m pip install "kivy[base] @ https://github.com/kivy/kivy/archive/master.zip"

Same here. Had to go back to 3.10.4 for now.

Current status (I will update this comment to keep track about it):

• https://github.com/kivy/kivy-sdk-packager/pull/82
• https://github.com/kivy/kivy/pull/8044
• https://github.com/pypa/pypi-support/issues/2342

Same here

Temporary resolution

python -m pip install kivy --pre --no-deps --index-url https://kivy.org/downloads/simple/ python -m pip install “kivy[base]” --pre --extra-index-url https://kivy.org/downloads/simple/

still not working.

The issue on the Pi is different, and probably because Cython doesn’t seem to be available (https://www.piwheels.org/project/cython/).

Same here

me too

Okay, so for those who are still struggling to install Kivy. I have an additional update for you all. If you have any pervious python versions on your computer you will need to uninstall and install the newer version all over again. The reason the error occurs is because when you go to install Kivy the system does not know which one to use. Therefore cause all of the errors above this. Version 3.12 is not supported but 3.11 is supported as stated above. So, to assure there are no errors you need to have only one version installed onto your computer. This comment will save you 2 hours of debugging.

Python major releases are done around October/November; so unsure if that counts as almost released

For anyone using poetry this worked for me

poetry source add --secondary kivy https://kivy.org/downloads/simple/
poetry add --allow-prereleases --source kivy kivy