[yt-dev] Problem in installing YT.

Prateek Gupta prateekgidolia at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 05:18:22 PDT 2015


Hello Nathan,

Thanks for your reply and solution. I will try with your solution.
The OS I used is UBUNTU 14.02.


Regards
Prateek

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Prateek,
>
> This sort of error happens when Python is unable to be built with SSL
> support. Recent versions of Python will refuse to link against older
> versions of OpenSSL, since they are known to be insecure.
>
> Which OS and version is this? It may just be that you need to update your
> OpenSSL library.
>
> On the othe hand, if you do not have root or if you are running an OS
> version that is no longer receiving security updates, a workaround would be
> to install yt using miniconda instead of the install script. This works
> because miniconda bundles a recent, secure version of OpenSSL.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nathan
>
> On Monday, October 12, 2015, Prateek Gupta <prateekgidolia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I tried to install YT in Laptop using install script. But when I attempt
>> to run the script it shows the following error:
>>
>>
>> Cloning yt
>> Setting YT_DIR=/home/dumbo/Desktop/yt-x86_64/src/yt-hg/
>> Installing pip
>> ********************************************
>>         FAILURE REPORT:
>> ********************************************
>>
>>     bootstrap(tmpdir=tmpdir)
>>   File "get-pip.py", line 82, in bootstrap
>>     import pip
>>   File "/tmp/tmpTGocNa/pip.zip/pip/__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
>>   File "/tmp/tmpTGocNa/pip.zip/pip/vcs/subversion.py", line 9, in <module>
>>   File "/tmp/tmpTGocNa/pip.zip/pip/index.py", line 30, in <module>
>>   File "/tmp/tmpTGocNa/pip.zip/pip/wheel.py", line 35, in <module>
>>   File "/tmp/tmpTGocNa/pip.zip/pip/_vendor/distlib/scripts.py", line 14,
>> in <module>
>>   File "/tmp/tmpTGocNa/pip.zip/pip/_vendor/distlib/compat.py", line 31,
>> in <module>
>> ImportError: cannot import name HTTPSHandler
>>
>> ********************************************
>> ********************************************
>>
>> I also tried with installing get-pip.py first seperately as root but
>> still it show the same error. I thing I didn't get the error exactly.
>> How to get rid of this error and install YT properly ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Regards
>> Prateek
>>
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