Pyxel installation doesn't work on Thonny

[fgallaire]

With Thonny 4.1.7 snap version on Ubuntu, Pyxel installation via Thonny->Tools->Manage packages... doesn't work

>>> import pyxel
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/fgallaire/snap/thonny/239/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyxel/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from .pyxel_wrapper import *  # type: ignore  # noqa: F403
ImportError: libSDL2-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The pygame installation, with the same libSDL2 dependency, works fine.

[kitao]

On Linux, Pyxel requires libSDL2 and it should be installed separately.

[fgallaire]

hello @kitao ,

Background:
Thonny is a simple IDE which target high school students, students and all coding beginners. Its Python is sandboxed and so the standard libSDL2 install is not working for it.

Pyxel requires libSDL2

Yes, I know it, and pygame too, but pygame works inside Thonny, I think the libSDL2 file is included in the wheel. So Pyxel could do it too.

[kitao]

I see. I'll consider including .so files.