[yt-users] Error using install script: <urlopen error unknown url type: https>

[Nathan Goldbaum]

What OS are you using?  This error commonly happens on Linux when the
OpenSSL headers aren't installed.

Did the install script print instructions about required packages when you
first execute it?

On Friday, April 24, 2015, Ricarda Beckmann <ricarda.beckmann at astro.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hello everbody,
>
> I forked and cloned the repo on bitbucket and am now trying to install yt
> using the install script. Unfortunately I keep running into trouble:
>
> The installation runs fine until:
> Installing PNG
> Installing FreeType2
> Installing SQLite3
> Installing Python.  This may take a while, but don't worry.  yt loves you.
> Installing mercurial-3.1
> Setting YT_DIR=/home/beckmann/soft/yt
> Installing distribute
>
> at which point it exits with
>
> ********************************************
>         FAILURE REPORT:
> ********************************************
>
>     return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
>   File "/home/beckmann/soft/yt/yt-x86_64/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line
> 404, in open
>     response = self._open(req, data)
>   File "/home/beckmann/soft/yt/yt-x86_64/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line
> 427, in _open
>     'unknown_open', req)
>   File "/home/beckmann/soft/yt/yt-x86_64/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line
> 382, in _call_chain
>     result = func(*args)
>   File "/home/beckmann/soft/yt/yt-x86_64/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line
> 1247, in unknown_open
>     raise URLError('unknown url type: %s' % type)
> urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error unknown url type: https>
>
> ********************************************
> ********************************************
>
> I have tried installing distribute manually but I immediately run into the
> same error with the next package so that is not a solution.
>
> This website suggests that the issue is that SSL is not supported:
> http://www.xinotes.net/notes/note/628/ and I need to recompile python
> with SSL? How do I do that in this context? Is there another solution? I do
> not have root access on this machine.
>
> Thank you,
> Ricarda
>
>
>
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