"yt update" won't work with the miniconda-based installation. Instead, when we do a new release you'll be able to get the updated yt package by doing "conda update yt".<div><br></div><div>You don't need to run an activate script if you're using miniconda's Python<span></span>, just start Python, import yt, and load your data :)</div><div><br></div><div>Nathan</div><div><br>On Thursday, July 30, 2015, Madison Fitzgerald <<a href="mailto:fitzg152@msu.edu">fitzg152@msu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">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><br></div><div>"Hermione:~ madisonfitzgerald$ yt update<br><br>yt module located at:<br>    /Users/madisonfitzgerald/miniconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages<br><br>YT site-packages not in path, so you must<br>update this installation manually by committing and<br>merging your modifications to the code before<br>updating to the newest changeset.”</div><div><br><div><br></div><div>And I’m not sure what they mean by this.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for you help and your patience.</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 30, 2015, at 2:10 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','nathan12343@gmail.com');" target="_blank">nathan12343@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div>Can you explain a little bit more what's going wrong with the miniconda-based installation?<div><br></div><div>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></span></div><div><br></div><div>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><br>On Wednesday, July 29, 2015, Madison Fitzgerald <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fitzg152@msu.edu');" target="_blank">fitzg152@msu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>Kacper: Sorry, my bad, but no, it didn’t work, unfortunately.</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>Truthfully, I’m really not sure where to go from here. Any thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Madison</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 29, 2015, at 11:01 PM, John ZuHone <<a>jzuhone@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">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><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 29, 2015, at 7:06 PM, Kacper Kowalik <<a>xarthisius.kk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><p dir="ltr">Hi again,<br>
did setting backend to 'agg' also fail?<br>
Cheers,<br>
Kacper</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 29, 2015 5:32 PM, "Nathan Goldbaum" <<a>nathan12343@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Madison Fitzgerald <span dir="ltr"><<a>fitzg152@msu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Nathan,<div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>Following these instructions:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/installing.html#installing-yt-using-anaconda" target="_blank">http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/installing.html#installing-yt-using-anaconda</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>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> </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"><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Madison</div><div><br></div><div><span><br><div>
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<br></span><div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 29, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <<a>nathan12343@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><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"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Madison Fitzgerald<span> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a>fitzg152@msu.edu</a>></span><span> </span>wrote:<br><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">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>Does anyone know where I should start to fix this?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is happening inside of matplotlib. </div><div><br></div><div>Can you try reinstalling the matplotlib that's in the yt environment? You should be able to do that with:</div><div><br></div><div>$ pip uninstall matplotlib</div><div>$ pip install matplotlib</div><div><br></div><div>And see if that works?</div><div><br></div><div>Failing that, a workaround would be to use a miniconda-based install.  </div><div><br></div><div>I'm currently running the install script on my mac laptop to see if I can reproduce your issue.</div><div><br></div><div>-Nathan</div><div> </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"><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Madison</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div 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"><div>Madison Fitzgerald</div><div><br></div><div>Astrophysics | Lyman Briggs College</div><div>Women’s & Gender Studies | College of Arts & Letters</div><div>LGBTQ and Sexuality Studies Specialization</div><div><div>Women in Science, President</div><div>Undergraduate Teaching Assistant</div><div>Undergraduate Research Assistant</div><div>Department of Physics and Astronomy</div></div><div>Honors College</div><div>Michigan State University</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div></div></div></div><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div></div><br></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>yt-users mailing list<br><a>yt-users@lists.spacepope.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-users-spacepope.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-users-spacepope.org</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div><span 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;float:none;display:inline!important">_______________________________________________</span><br 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"><span 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-spa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