Kivy installation on Raspberry Pi 3

[Sean O'Rourke]

I'm having trouble installing and running Kivy on my Raspberry Pi 3. I'm running Raspbian Jessie.

I've tried following the directions on this wiki page https://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation-rpi.html

and I'm getting an import error. 

pi@raspberrypi:~/PycharmProjects/kivy_for_raspberry $ python Main.py

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "Main.py", line 1, in <module>

    import Kivy

ImportError: No module named Kivy

import Kivy

from kivy.app import APP

from kivy.uix.gridlayout import GridLayout

class MyApp(App):

    title = 'Raspberry Pi test'

    def build(self):

        return MainFrame()

class MainFrame(GridLayout):

    def __init__(self, **kwargs):

        super(MainFrame, self).__init__(**kwargs)

        self.cols = 1

if __name__ == '__main__':

    MyApp().run()

also tried without importing Kivy

pi@raspberrypi:~/PycharmProjects/kivy_for_raspberry $ python Main.py

[WARNING] [Config      ] Older configuration version detected (14 instead of 16)

[WARNING] [Config      ] Upgrading configuration in progress.

[INFO   ] [Logger      ] Record log in /home/pi/.kivy/logs/kivy_16-10-11_1.txt

[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] v1.9.2-dev0

[INFO   ] [Python      ] v2.7.9 (default, Sep 17 2016, 20:26:04) 

[GCC 4.9.2]

[INFO   ] [Factory     ] 193 symbols loaded

[INFO   ] [Image       ] Providers: img_tex, img_dds, img_gif, img_sdl2, img_pil (img_ffpyplayer ignored)

 Traceback (most recent call last):

   File "Main.py", line 2, in <module>

     from kivy.app import APP

 ImportError: cannot import name APP

list of installed modules

pi@raspberrypi:~/PycharmProjects/kivy_for_raspberry $ pip3 list

chardet (2.3.0)

codebug-i2c-tether (0.2.3)

codebug-tether (0.7.0)

colorama (0.3.2)

Cython (0.20.1)

Flask (0.10.1)

gpiozero (1.3.1)

html5lib (0.999)

itsdangerous (0.24)

Jinja2 (2.7.3)

Kivy (1.9.1)

Kivy-Garden (0.1.4)

MarkupSafe (0.23)

mcpi (0.1.1)

numpy (1.8.2)

pgzero (1.1)

picamera (1.12)

picraft (0.6)

pifacecommon (4.2.1)

pifacedigitalio (3.1.0)

pigpio (1.30)

Pillow (2.6.1)

pip (1.5.6)

pygame (1.9.2a0)

pygobject (3.14.0)

pyinotify (0.9.4)

pyOpenSSL (0.13.1)

pyserial (2.6)

python-apt (0.9.3.12)

python-debian (0.1.27)

requests (2.4.3)

RPi.GPIO (0.6.2)

RTIMULib (7.2.1)

sense-emu (1.0)

sense-hat (2.2.0)

setuptools (5.5.1)

six (1.8.0)

smbus (1.1)

spidev (3.0)

twython (3.1.2)

urllib3 (1.9.1)

Werkzeug (0.9.6)

wheel (0.24.0)

[Sean O'Rourke]

Couldn't edit post. Wasn't running python 3.4 but still having errors.

pi@raspberrypi:~/PycharmProjects/kivy_for_raspberry $ python3.4 Main.py

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "Main.py", line 1, in <module>

    import Kivy

ImportError: No module named 'Kivy'

 

pi@raspberrypi:~/PycharmProjects/kivy_for_raspberry $ python3.4 Main.py

[INFO   ] [Logger      ] Record log in /home/pi/.kivy/logs/kivy_16-10-11_2.txt

[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] v1.9.2-dev0

[INFO   ] [Python      ] v3.4.2 (default, Oct 19 2014, 13:31:11) 

[GCC 4.9.1]

 Traceback (most recent call last):

   File "Main.py", line 2, in <module>

     from kivy.app import APP

   File "/home/pi/PycharmProjects/kivy_for_raspberry/kivy/kivy/app.py", line 319, in <module>

     from kivy.base import runTouchApp, stopTouchApp

   File "/home/pi/PycharmProjects/kivy_for_raspberry/kivy/kivy/base.py", line 29, in <module>

     from kivy.clock import Clock

   File "/home/pi/PycharmProjects/kivy_for_raspberry/kivy/kivy/clock.py", line 364, in <module>

     from kivy._clock import CyClockBase, ClockEvent, FreeClockEvent, \

 ImportError: /home/pi/PycharmProjects/kivy_for_raspberry/kivy/kivy/_clock.so: undefined symbol: _Py_ZeroStruct

[Sean O'Rourke]

I figured it out. I had a newline at the top of the file and that oddly caused the issue.