[Ifeffit] Larch 0.9.47

[George Sterbinsky]

Hi All,

I am trying to upgrade larch from 0.9.45. Neither "conda update --all" nor
"pip install xraylarch" are updating to 0.9.47. Is a complete reinstall of
anaconda my only option?

Thank you,
George

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 11:22 AM Matt Newville <newville at cars.uchicago.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Garret,
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 8:01 AM Garret Bland <gbland at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> I tried to reinstall anaconda (Windows 10) and create a new environment
>> to install the newest version of larch. It gave me the following error:
>>
>> conda install -yc GSECARS xraylarch
>> Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
>> Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with
>> flexible solve.
>> Solving environment: failed with repodata from current_repodata.json,
>> will retry with next repodata source.
>> Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
>> Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with
>> flexible solve.
>> Solving environment: -
>> Found conflicts! Looking for incompatible packages.
>> This can take several minutes.  Press CTRL-C to abort.
>> failed
>>
>
> Sorry for the trouble.  It seems like updating from a previous release is
> not working as well as I hoped.  I'm not sure what that error *really*
> means, but I have also seen some Anaconda environments be either very, very
> slow to "solve environment" or fail when I'm pretty sure it really should
> succeed.
>
> Slightly conda-specific, but: It should definitely be the case that doing
> an "conda update --all" or making a completely new environment and
> installing into that should work too.  I'm reluctant to expect most users
> to have to install / update with conda, but I also think it should work.
>
>>
>> I then installed pip on my virtual environment and used pip install
>> xraylarch. That seemed to work for me.
>>
>
> OK, yes.  For the Python-enabled users, `pip install xraylarch` should
> work for most work (including all the XAFS functionality).  It will not
> install some optional packages (notably tomopy), but that should be OK
> unless you're doing fluorescence tomography.
>
> Just for completeness and to prove that all three systems have their own
> challenges, `pip install xraylarch` will work on Windows and MacOS, but
> will work on Linux only if wxPython has already somehow been installed.  A
> binary package is not available for "Linux" and compiling from source on
> Linux is not trivial (these two things are related).
>
> Anyway, I'm glad to hear you've got something working.
>
> --Matt
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