Hi there

I resolved that in our recent workshop using the commands

conda create -n ggplot ggplot (and whatever else you need)
source activate ggplot

i.e. create a new conda environment and use that.

Peter

On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 at 19:06 Pariksheet Nanda <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> In setting up for a Python Ecology workshop next week, one user reported
> the ggplot python package not installing.  I've raised an issue against the
> lesson here:
> https://github.com/datacarpentry/python-ecology-lesson/issues/164
> Error pasted here for mailing list searchability:
>
>
> $ conda install -c conda-forge ggplot
> Fetching package metadata .............
> Solving package specifications: .
> UnsatisfiableError: The following specifications were found to be in
> conflict:
>   - ggplot -> python 3.4*
>   - python 3.6*
> Use "conda info <package>" to see the dependencies for each package.
>
>
> It looks like ggplot does not support python 3.6 which is bundled with the
> current Anaconda installer.
>
> What would be a sane workaround for this?  Using `pip` to install ggplot
> doesn't always work because its matplotlib dependency requires PyQt4 which
> does not seem to be trivial to setup for all platforms.  Some ideas I'm
> thinking of are:
>
> 1) Using the python 2.7 version of Anaconda for now and adapting lessons
> with future imports if necessary.
> 2) Using an older version of Anaconda that installs e.g. python 3.4
> packages (where does one find them?)
> 3) Setting matplotlib backend to use e.g. wx instead of PyQt4, but I don't
> have the resources to validate this on all platforms.
> 4) It looks like now python abstracts the Qt version via QtPy module, so
> it may be difficult to install Qt4 in addition to the Anaconda bundled Qt5.
>
> For points 3 and 4 maybe the Continuum developers have some ideas?
> Actually I don't know if I'm interpreting the error message correctly.
>
> Pariksheet
>
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> Pariksheet Nanda
> PhD Candidate in Genetics and Genomics
> System Administrator, Storrs HPC Cluster
> University of Connecticut
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