title: Install Pygame with Anaconda
body: <p>I'm trying to install pygame on my Mac and get a ton of errors. I'm not 100% sure what this is telling me, except that it's telling me a lot.</p>
  
  <p>Is it saying that Pygame is only compatible with Python 3.5? Because there was another ticket on StackOverflow (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41779485/install-pygame-with-anaconda-on-mac">Install pygame with anaconda on mac</a>) that said there was a problem with Python 3.5. I'd be surprised if it was incompatible with 3.7.</p>
  
  <p>And if it's not incompatible, what's the problem? Everything I find seems to be quite Windows-centric with its problems and solutions.</p>
  
  <pre><code>% conda install -c cogsci pygame
  Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
  Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
  Solving environment: failed with repodata from current_repodata.json, will retry with next repodata source.
  Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
  Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
  Solving environment: - 
  Found conflicts! Looking for incompatible packages.
  This can take several minutes.  Press CTRL-C to abort.
  failed                                                                          
  
  UnsatisfiableError: The following specifications were found
  to be incompatible with the existing python installation in your environment:
  
  Specifications:
  
    - pygame -&gt; python[version='2.7.*|3.5.*']
  
  Your python: python=3.7
  
  If python is on the left-most side of the chain, that's the version you've asked for.
  When python appears to the right, that indicates that the thing on the left is somehow
  not available for the python version you are constrained to. Note that conda will not
  change your python version to a different minor version unless you explicitly specify
  that.
  </code></pre>