Thanks for replying Carlos. I'll uninstall hashdist and install Anaconda.

Sophia.

On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 10:16:53 AM UTC-6, Sophia Wright wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble running Spyder (I'm able to run Ipython). This is the 
> error I get on calling spyder from the terminal:
>
> sophiaw$ spyder
>
> Using Python Framework binary, which is currently not supported by 
> hashdist...Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File "/usr/local/bin/spyder", line 7, in <module>
>
>     from spyderlib.app.start import main
>
> ImportError: No module named spyderlib.app.start
>
>
>
>  =========
>
>
>  I tried updating spyder using pip install --pre -U spyder, and got the 
> following error:
>
>
> Installing collected packages: six, qtpy, qtawesome, pyflakes, 
> pickleshare, backports.functools-lru-cache, isort, mccabe, 
> lazy-object-proxy, wrapt, astroid, pylint, jedi, psutil, rope, pygments, 
> pep8, pyzmq, docutils, sphinx, spyder, decorator, traitlets, setuptools, 
> pexpect, ipython, tornado, pytz
>
>   Found existing installation: six 1.6.1
>
>     Uninstalling six-1.6.1:
>
> Exception:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File 
> "/Users/sophiaw/.hashdist/bld/profile/wnflatpkcu7u/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py",
>  
> line 209, in main
>
>     status = self.run(options, args)
>
>   File 
> "/Users/sophiaw/.hashdist/bld/profile/wnflatpkcu7u/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py",
>  
> line 317, in run
>
>     prefix=options.prefix_path,
>
>   File 
> "/Users/sophiaw/.hashdist/bld/profile/wnflatpkcu7u/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py",
>  
> line 725, in install
>
>     requirement.uninstall(auto_confirm=True)
>
>   File 
> "/Users/sophiaw/.hashdist/bld/profile/wnflatpkcu7u/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py",
>  
> line 756, in uninstall
>
>     paths_to_remove.remove(auto_confirm)
>
>   File 
> "/Users/sophiaw/.hashdist/bld/profile/wnflatpkcu7u/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_uninstall.py",
>  
> line 115, in remove
>
>     renames(path, new_path)
>
>   File 
> "/Users/sophiaw/.hashdist/bld/profile/wnflatpkcu7u/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/utils/__init__.py",
>  
> line 266, in renames
>
>     shutil.move(old, new)
>
>   File 
> "/Users/sophiaw/.hashdist/bld/python/pf77qttkbtzn/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py",
>  
> line 300, in move
>
>     rmtree(src)
>
>   File 
> "/Users/sophiaw/.hashdist/bld/python/pf77qttkbtzn/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py",
>  
> line 232, in rmtree
>
>     onerror(os.path.islink, path, sys.exc_info())
>
>   File 
> "/Users/sophiaw/.hashdist/bld/python/pf77qttkbtzn/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py",
>  
> line 230, in rmtree
>
>     raise OSError("Cannot call rmtree on a symbolic link")
>
> OSError: Cannot call rmtree on a symbolic link
>
>
> Any suggestions to fix this error?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sophia.
>

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