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pygame.error: File is not a Windows BMP file

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Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspbian Buster Slim using the Adafruit 7" Touchscreen display.

Using ./run.sh gets me to this error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "lcars.py", line 8, in <module>
    config.SOUND)
  File "/home/pi/rpi_lcars/app/ui/ui.py", line 30, in __init__
    self.screen.setup(self.all_sprites)
  File "/home/pi/rpi_lcars/app/screens/authorize.py", line 16, in setup
    all_sprites.add(LcarsBackgroundImage("assets/lcars_screen_2.png"),
  File "/home/pi/rpi_lcars/app/ui/widgets/background.py", line 14, in __init__
    self.image = pygame.image.load(image).convert()
pygame.error: File is not a Windows BMP file

I’ve verified that Pillow is installed and all needed libraries are installed. Any assistance would be appreciated.

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)

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topcatscommented, Feb 20, 2021

just had the same issue after dist-upgrade to Buster.

the resolution was the fact the SDL libraries were not installed.

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topcatscommented, Feb 22, 2021

The easiest way, will be install using the command line

Open a terminal window
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libsdl-gfx1.2-5 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-kitchensink1 libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-sound1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsdl1.2debian libsdl2-2.0-0 libsdl2-gfx-1.0-0 libsdl2-image-2.0-0 libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0 libsdl2-ttf-2.0-0
Try again, all should be good.