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

[Ricarda Beckmann]

That provided the hint I needed. Thanks for your help.

Ricarda

> On 24 Apr 2015, at 10:44, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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:
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> 
>     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/ <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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