title: Why is my Ubuntu Linux box telling me it can't find pygame and pygcurse?
body: <p>I'm working on a game in python that requires pygame and pygcurse. It appears they're both installed. I have pygame installed with apt-get, and I have pygcurse installed as a lib locally.</p>
  
  <pre><code>root@blog:~/dan-game# apt-get install python-pygame
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  python-pygame is already the newest version.
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
  root@blog:~/dan-game# ls -l
  total 2248
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    12574 Jan 18 21:49 cat.png
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Jan 18 23:04 __pycache__
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   112507 Sep 10  2011 pygcurse.py
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      144 Jan 18 21:49 README.md
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      166 Jan 18 21:49 save.dat
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    13360 Jan 18 22:35 the-word-of-elements.py
  
  
  root@blog:~/dan-game# python3 the-word-of-elements.py 
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "the-word-of-elements.py", line 14, in &lt;module&gt;
  import pygcurse
  File "/root/dan-game/pygcurse.py", line 58, in &lt;module&gt;
  import pygame
  ImportError: No module named 'pygame'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Curious if anyone knows why my import pygame and import pygcurse are throwing errors? I wonder if it's because python3 can't see the libs, but apt-get has installed the lib for python 2.x instead?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>