Hi Folks,

I think I am missing something obvious and am hoping that you can quickly tell me my mistake, so let me begin my story:

I downloaded xraylarch-2021-060Linux-x86_64.sh into downloads on a Asus Zenbook using ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS

I ran the command bash ./xraylarch-2021-060Linux-x86_64.sh

Larch appears to have been correctly installed, but because I am using a gnome desktop no shortcuts appeared on my desktop (as promised) and there were no files that       I could identify as shortcuts in my Downloads directory (which was set to display hidden files)

I then moved to the /xraylarch/bin and tried to launch larch using python and this is what happened:

python larch

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "larch", line 5, in <module>

    from larch.apps import run_larch

  File "/home/donb/xraylarch/lib/python3.8/site-packages/larch/__init__.py", line 52, in <module>

    from . import builtins

  File "/home/donb/xraylarch/lib/python3.8/site-packages/larch/builtins.py", line 27, in <module>

    from . import xrd

  File "/home/donb/xraylarch/lib/python3.8/site-packages/larch/xrd/__init__.py", line 25, in <module>

    from .amscifdb import CifStructure, get_amscifdb, get_cif, find_cifs

  File "/home/donb/xraylarch/lib/python3.8/site-packages/larch/xrd/amscifdb.py", line 40, in <module>

    from pymatgen.io.cif import CifParser

  File "/home/donb/xraylarch/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pymatgen/io/cif.py", line 25, in <module>

    from pymatgen.core.composition import Composition

  File "/home/donb/xraylarch/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pymatgen/core/__init__.py", line 21, in <module>

    from .lattice import Lattice  # noqa

  File "/home/donb/xraylarch/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pymatgen/core/lattice.py", line 23, in <module>

    from pymatgen.util.coord import pbc_shortest_vectors

  File "/home/donb/xraylarch/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pymatgen/util/coord.py", line 17, in <module>

    from . import coord_cython as cuc

  File "pymatgen/util/coord_cython.pyx", line 1, in init pymatgen.util.coord_cython

ValueError: numpy.ndarray size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 88 from C header, got 80 from PyObject

I also tried to use python to start larch_server and xas_viewer and had the same results.  I also have the same results if I try to launch larch using ./larch

This is the information on the version of Python that I am running:

Python 3.8.10 (default, Jun  4 2021, 15:09:15) 

[GCC 7.5.0] :: Anaconda, Inc. on linux

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Any suggestions anyone has to offer will be appreciated.

Wishing you all the best,

Don

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