Installation on Ubuntu

Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick)

$ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-pygame python-opengl \
  python-gst0.10 python-enchant gstreamer0.10-plugins-good cython python-dev \
  build-essential libgl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev
$ easy_install kivy

If you already installed kivy before, you can upgrade it with:

$ easy_install -U kivy

Start from Command Line

You can know run any example from the examples directory of kivy:

$ cd <path to kivy directory>/examples/demo
$ python touchtracer.py