Having issues with installing the ground control. requirements_linux.txt

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having issues with the dependency not installing

Collecting pygame==1.9.3 (from -r requirements_linux.txt (line 7))
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/61/06/3c25051549c252cc6fde01c8aeae90b96831370884504fe428a623316def/pygame-1.9.3.tar.gz (3.0MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 3.0MB 102kB/s
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:

WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "config.py"
Using UNIX configuration...

sh: 1: sdl-config: not found
sh: 1: sdl-config: not found
sh: 1: sdl-config: not found
sh: 1: freetype-config: not found
sh: 1: freetype-config: not found
sh: 1: freetype-config: not found

Hunting dependencies...
WARNING: "sdl-config" failed!
WARNING: "freetype-config" failed!
Unable to run "sdl-config". Please make sure a development version of SDL is installed.
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i am using a Rasberry Pi 4, 4 gig
Raspbian OS

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yes, this is a known problem, the packages have phased out support for the
version of kivy and python used in ground control. This is one of the reasons we
are recommending that people move to WebControl.

David Lang

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thank you, will give it a try.

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