[yt-users] running yt on Ranger

[Britton Smith]

Hi Yuan,

Glad to hear that worked for you.  In most circumstances, you have to set
these variables or run the script.  If you're referring to kraken, for
example, loading the yt module also sets those environment variables for
you.

Britton

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Yuan Li <bear0980 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Britton,
>
> That worked! It is good to know what the activate script does!
>
> I never had to set all these environment variables on the other machines
> though... But anyway, it is working now. Thanks a lot!
>
> Yuan
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Yuan,
>>
>> The main thing the activate script does is set the following environment
>> variables:
>> export YT_DEST = path to your whole yt stack (for you this would be
>> /share/home/01688/yuanli/source/yt-x86_64/)
>> export PATH=$PATH:$YT_DEST/bin
>> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$YT_DEST/lib
>> export PYTHONPATH=$YT_DEST/lib/python2.7/site-packages
>>
>> If you are manually setting all of those environment variables, then you
>> don't need to run activate as well.  However, it looks like you're only
>> setting PATH and then setting PATH again with what's meant for
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  I would recommend just running the activate script before
>> using yt.
>>
>> Britton
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Yuan Li <yuan at astro.columbia.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am having some trouble running yt on Ranger, and I am confused
>>> because a couple of other people load the same modules and they can
>>> run yt without any problem.
>>>
>>> Right now, I can only run yt after I activate it (source
>>> ~/source/yt-x86_64/bin/activate). If I do not activate yt, and I try
>>> to import yt in python (I use the one that came with yt):
>>> from yt.mods import *
>>>
>>> I get this error:
>>> ImportError: libpng15.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such
>>> file or directory
>>>
>>> The module I load before running yt is this:
>>> module swap intel gcc/4.4.3
>>> which inactivates these modules:
>>> Inactive Modules:
>>>   1) mvapich-devel     2) acml     3) hdf5
>>>
>>>
>>> In my .bashrc file, I have:
>>> export PATH=$PATH:/share/home/01688/yuanli/source/yt-x86_64/bin
>>> export
>>> PATH=$PATH:/share/home/01688/yuanli/source/yt-x86_64/lib/python2.7/site-packages
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope there is an easy fix.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>> Yuan
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