Ubuntu 15.10 Installing SDL2

Question

I have ubuntu 15.10 running as a virtual machine I would like to install and use SDL2, I followed this process What is the general procedure to install development libraries in Ubuntu? as well as the instruction for Ubuntu from here:

I got no errors or anything when installing SDL2 but somehow it just won't compile with the following error:

Can't locate SDL.pm in @INC (you may need to install the SDL module)...

which means I didn't install SDL2 correctly somehow :/

Has anyone got an idea how I can check if it is installed properly?

Answer 1

Easiest way is to just install by apt-get...

If you just want the libraries:

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-2.0

On Bionic or newer:

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-2.0-0 

If you want to do development:

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev