[yt-users] Yt not installing right

[rsoares]

Matt,

Isn't " iyt " the interactive shell?  This is what I want.

R.Soares

Matthew Turk wrote:
>> I tried installing yt-1.5 again now that I had python-dev on my system.  Got
>> the same error.
>>     
>
> Oof, I am sorry to hear that.  I'll see if I can replicate the problem
> on my machine at home, and then get back to you with what I find.
>
>   
>> Please suggest something for my other problem 2.) about not "iyt" in the old
>> installation.  Here is the successful old-yt install log and the src
>> contents that were actually downloaded by the script for that installation.
>>     
>
> Okay, iyt is actually a rather simple extension to the functionality
> of IPython.  (IPython can be "easy_install"'d if you don't have it
> already.)  It is not necessary, but it does help things out.  You can
> get the functionality by:
>
> $ ipython -pylab
>
> from yt.mods import *
>
> There are a couple other functions that I've added to iyt, but they
> are not terribly useful just yet.  Please note that you need
> PYTHONPATH set correctly here, or else the "from yt.mods import *"
> line won't work for you.  I hope this works out -- but if it doesn't,
> you can do it all from the regular python interpreter, too, you just
> have to plot non-interactively.  (I typically do this, myself -- other
> people on the list use IPython,  but it is not my primary entry point
> to yt.)  You can plot non-interactively in one window and view the
> plots in the other; I've found gqview to be a good application for
> this on linux, or even something like firefox!
>
>   
>> Meantime I'll see if I can install the whole yt-1.5 by hand.
>>     
>
> Good luck, and please let me know if it works for you.  It should be
> fine if you ahve HDF5, matplotlib, numpy all from the operating
> system.
>
> -Matt
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