[yt-users] yt installation issues

Matthew Turk matthewturk at gmail.com
Tue May 13 04:38:27 PDT 2014


Hi Kaylea,

Wow!  That's super weird.  Would you mind having another go, wiping
the yt-x86_64 directory, and trying the "bleeding edge" install
script?  I'm wondering if one of the updates there -- maybe to SSL or
something -- would fix it.  Indeed, it shouldn't be using the system
python...

-Matt

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Kaylea Nelson <kaylea.nelson at yale.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install the latest stable yt version via the install_script.sh
> on a Red Hat 6 based HPC. I'm getting a very confusing error during the
> final steps of the installation, which can be seen here:
> http://paste.yt-project.org/show/4612/
>
> Basically, during the step where yt updates from the repo and then attempts
> to install, it looks in a very odd place for the distribute python package.
> I can't simply update that version, because I'm on an HPC, but I think the
> problem is deeper than that. Its looking for it in a version of python that
> I don't even have loaded in my environment, in a directory that isn't in my
> PYTHONPATH. I've tried wiping out my python path prior to install as well,
> but with the same results. From my understanding, yt shouldn't even be
> trying to use the system version of python any way?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
>
> Kaylea
>
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