[yt-users] installation issues

John ZuHone jzuhone at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 13:39:54 PDT 2015


It’s unfortunate that the 3.1 link is wrong (since that’s the current stable version), but any link for version 2.x should not be trusted. 

What operating system are you trying to install yt on?

> On Jul 17, 2015, at 4:35 PM, Shankar Agarwal <agarwalshankar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Cameron,
> 
> There are many yt versions that point to: 
> wget http://hg.yt-project.org/yt/raw/stable/doc/install_script.sh <http://hg.yt-project.org/yt/raw/stable/doc/install_script.sh>
> 
> http://yt-project.org/docs/2.5/orientation/installing.html <http://yt-project.org/docs/2.5/orientation/installing.html>
> http://yt-project.org/docs/3.1/installing.html <http://yt-project.org/docs/3.1/installing.html>
> 
> You are right that the above downloads an index.html.
> 
> Anyway, the new link you gave me, works well (although I had to use --no-check-certificate): 
> wget http://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/raw/stable/doc/install_script.sh <http://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/raw/stable/doc/install_script.sh> --no-check-certificate
> 
> 
> However, installation failed with a pyexpat error:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Installing BZLIB
> Installing ZLIB
> Installing PNG
> Installing FreeType2
> Installing HDF5
> Installing SQLite3
> Installing Python.  This may take a while, but don't worry.  yt loves you.
> Installing mercurial-3.1
> Cloning yt
> Setting YT_DIR=/Users/hitu/Documents/yt3/yt-i386/src/yt-hg/
> Installing distribute
> ********************************************
>         FAILURE REPORT:
> ********************************************
> 
>     pl = plistlib.readPlist(fn)
>   File "/Users/hitu/Documents/yt3/yt-i386/lib/python2.7/plistlib.py", line 78, in readPlist
>     rootObject = p.parse(pathOrFile)
>   File "/Users/hitu/Documents/yt3/yt-i386/lib/python2.7/plistlib.py", line 401, in parse
>     from xml.parsers.expat import ParserCreate
>   File "/Users/hitu/Documents/yt3/yt-i386/lib/python2.7/xml/parsers/expat.py", line 4, in <module>
>     from pyexpat import *
> ImportError: No module named pyexpat
> Something went wrong during the installation.
> See the error message above.
> 
> ********************************************
> ********************************************
> Failure.  Check /Users/hitu/Documents/yt3/yt-i386/yt_install.log.  The last 10 lines are above.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> Let me know how may I proceed...
> Shankar
> 
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