On 8/25/06, andrew baker <failrate@[...].com>  wrote:
>  Hello,
> 
>  I keep trying to install Pygame via source on Xubuntu, but it keeps telling
>  me I'm missing SDL_ttf, SDL_mixer, SDL_image, and Numeric.  However, I know
>  I've Numeric on the system, and I did an apt-get for libsdl-ttf,
>  libsdl-mixer and libsdl-image that reported back as successes.

Try install the dev packages for the libraries you need. eg
libsdl-ttf-dev, lib-sdl-dev (or something similar)

-Sw.