PyTagCloud fails when running on a server without a sound card...

[johnrfrank]

Is it necessary for PyTagCloud to depend on pygame? pygame raises the exception below, apparently because it needs to see a sound card? Any advice?

ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4720:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default

[adamhos]

Use a fake soundcard.

modprobe snd_dummy

If module doesn't exist, I think I got it on Ubuntu with
apt-get install linux-image-extra-$(uname -r)

[gpjt]

Could pytagcloud not just do pygame.display.init() instead of pygame.init() in its __init__.py?