[yt-users] Not able to activate yt installation

[Morgan Presley]

Yes, I understand now. I had been following the instructions on
http://yt-project.org/doc/orientation/simple_data_inspection.html, which
said the command yt should produce "a number of subcommands". I didn't
realize those subcommands were *supposed* to be a part of an error message.
Thanks for the clarification.
Morgan


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Morgan,
>
> It looks like yt installed correctly, actually.  The 'yt' command line
> interface is a way to quickly examine datasets.  As the help prompt you
> pasted indicates, you need to pair the 'yt' command with a subcommand in
> order to do anything.  For example:
>
> $ yt plot IsolatedGalaxy/galaxy0030/galaxy0030
>
> Will make three plots of Density slices through the IsolatedGalaxy dataset
> (which you can download from yt-project.org/data).  There are a number of
> other subcommands, you can get more information on them using 'yt --help'.
>
> While yt's command line interface is good for looking quickly at a
> dataset, it's not so great for in-depth analysis.  For that, you'll want to
> make an ipython notebook or python script using yt's python interface.
>  Here is a brief introduction to using yt from python:
>
> http://yt-project.org/doc/orientation/first_steps.html
>
> Also see the bootcamp notebooks:
>
> http://yt-project.org/doc/bootcamp.html
>
> Hope that helps, please let us know if you have any more questions.
>
> -Nathan
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Morgan Presley <mpresley at princeton.edu>wrote:
>
>> I tried to install yt using the commands:
>>
>> $ wget http://hg.yt-project.org/yt/raw/stable/doc/install_script.sh
>> $ bash install_script.sh
>>
>> It seemed to install fine, but when I tried to run the activate script, I
>> got the following error:
>>
>> $ source /Users/mpresley/yt-x86_64/bin/activate
>> (yt-x86_64)anantes-651-1-49-78:~ mpresley$ yt
>> usage: yt [-h] [--config CONFIG] [--paste] [--paste-detailed] [--detailed]
>>           [--rpdb] [--parallel]
>>
>>
>> {help,bootstrap_dev,bugreport,hop,hub_register,hub_submit,instinfo,load,mapserver,pastebin,pastebin_grab,upload_notebook,plot,render,rpdb,notebook,serve,reason,stats,update,upload_image}
>>           ...
>> yt: error: too few arguments
>>
>> I tried just deleting the files and re-doing the installation, but I
>> encountered the same error. I am installing on iOS 10.7.5 and have attached
>> the install log. Thanks for any help.
>>
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