<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I figured out that miniconda was having an issue with another version of python, installed when I took a python-based programming class, and I was able to redirect my path to point to miniconda’s version instead, which solved that problem. However, I think my problem now is figuring out how to activate yt with miniconda. By that, I mean, I receive this output after installation and trying to take the first step:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"Hermione:~ madisonfitzgerald$ yt update<br class=""><br class="">yt module located at:<br class=""> /Users/madisonfitzgerald/miniconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages<br class=""><br class="">YT site-packages not in path, so you must<br class="">update this installation manually by committing and<br class="">merging your modifications to the code before<br class="">updating to the newest changeset.”</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And I’m not sure what they mean by this.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you so much for you help and your patience.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 30, 2015, at 2:10 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <<a href="mailto:nathan12343@gmail.com" class="">nathan12343@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Can you explain a little bit more what's going wrong with the miniconda-based installation?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Unfortunately none of us have been able to reproduce the issue you're having with the install script and since it has something to do with matplotlib, I don't think any of us would know off-hand how to fix it in-place.<span class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Debugging issues like this over a mailing list is always potentially a frustrating experience, I'm sorry we haven't been able to come up with a suitable solution so far.<br class=""><br class="">On Wednesday, July 29, 2015, Madison Fitzgerald <<a href="mailto:fitzg152@msu.edu" class="">fitzg152@msu.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Hi everyone,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kacper: Sorry, my bad, but no, it didn’t work, unfortunately.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John and Nathan: Thank you, but I haven’t gotten anything to work, which is especially frustrating because I had a functioning yt just a few days ago. Installing yt with miniconda has only made yt less willing to function, not solve my matplotlib issue.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Truthfully, I’m really not sure where to go from here. Any thoughts?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you,</div><div class="">Madison</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 29, 2015, at 11:01 PM, John ZuHone <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jzuhone@gmail.com');" target="_blank" class="">jzuhone@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">A bit late, but I can confirm that I was able to install from the install script on Mac OS 10.10 without any issue.<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 29, 2015, at 7:06 PM, Kacper Kowalik <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','xarthisius.kk@gmail.com');" target="_blank" class="">xarthisius.kk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Hi again,<br class="">
did setting backend to 'agg' also fail?<br class="">
Cheers,<br class="">
Kacper</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 29, 2015 5:32 PM, "Nathan Goldbaum" <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','nathan12343@gmail.com');" target="_blank" class="">nathan12343@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Madison Fitzgerald <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fitzg152@msu.edu');" target="_blank" class="">fitzg152@msu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Hi Nathan,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m still getting the same error when I uninstall and then reinstall matplotlib. How would I be able to use miniconda as a workaround?</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Following these instructions:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/installing.html#installing-yt-using-anaconda" target="_blank" class="">http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/installing.html#installing-yt-using-anaconda</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">By the way, did you completely erase the old yt installation before rerunning the install script? Not doing so might be the cause of your issue.</div><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you,</div><div class="">Madison</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""></span><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 29, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','nathan12343@gmail.com');" target="_blank" class="">nathan12343@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Madison Fitzgerald<span class=""> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fitzg152@msu.edu');" target="_blank" class="">fitzg152@msu.edu</a>></span><span class=""> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Hi everyone,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve run into an error whenever I try to execute any yt command (see yt_run_error.txt, attached because I can’t use “yt pastebin”). I’ve tried following the steps on the help page, including re-installing yt, and I still get this same error. I just installed the latest stable yt version (I can’t execute the command to give you specific numbers) on Mac OS X 10.10.4.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Does anyone know where I should start to fix this?</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is happening inside of matplotlib. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Can you try reinstalling the matplotlib that's in the yt environment? You should be able to do that with:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">$ pip uninstall matplotlib</div><div class="">$ pip install matplotlib</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And see if that works?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Failing that, a workaround would be to use a miniconda-based install. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm currently running the install script on my mac laptop to see if I can reproduce your issue.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Nathan</div><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you,</div><div class="">Madison</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div 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