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 > > --- > Pariksheet Nanda > PhD Candidate in Genetics and Genomics > System Administrator, Storrs HPC Cluster > University of Connecticut > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
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