[ase-users] Anaconda + ASE

Jens Jørgen Mortensen jensj at fysik.dtu.dk
Mon Jun 20 14:15:24 CEST 2016


On 06/11/2016 01:04 AM, Christopher Wright wrote:
> Would it be possible to put ASE on conda forge?
> This way an ASE conda package can be auto-built for each os.
> https://conda-forge.github.io/

I would prefer that we focus on using pip for installing ASE - less work 
for everyone when we do a new release.  And then we should describe on 
the installation guide how to install pygtk which is the only 
"difficult" dependency that ASE has.

Jens Jørgen

> Chris
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Prateek Mehta 
> <Prateek.Mehta.10 at nd.edu <mailto:Prateek.Mehta.10 at nd.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Andy,
>
>     I tried this on both linux and on Mac OS X. On linux this is handy
>     for when you don't have root access and thus can't use the package
>     manager. I'm surprised it actually also worked on OS X.
>
>     There used to be windows binary for pygtk as far as I recall...
>
>     Prateek
>
>
>
>     On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Peterson, Andrew
>     <andrew_peterson at brown.edu> wrote:
>
>         Glad there's a solution! I generally think about this issue
>         only when I teach with ASE and am trying to help students get
>         a working version on their laptops. Can you let us know what
>         OS you got this to work for? (Windows or Mac, I assume ...
>         linux package managers solve this problem.)
>
>         On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Prateek Mehta
>         <Prateek.Mehta.10 at nd.edu> wrote:
>
>             Awesome! That seems to have worked :). It might be a good
>             idea to put this on the installation documentation page.
>
>             Thanks Pedro!
>
>
>             On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 1:07 AM, Pedro Brandimarte
>             <brandimarte at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>                 Hi Prateek,
>
>                 pygtk and pyobject don't ship with anaconda by
>                 default, but you can
>                 easily include it from one of these sources:
>
>                 $ anaconda search -t conda pygtk
>
>                 Then, for instance you can choose:
>
>                 $ conda install -c https://conda.anaconda.org/mw
>                 pygtk2=2.24.0
>
>                 Best!
>
>
>                 Pedro
>
>
>                 On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Prateek Mehta
>                 <Prateek.Mehta.10 at nd.edu> wrote:
>                 > Did you guys ever come up with a solution to getting
>                 ase-gui to install well
>                 > with Canopy or Anaconda type distributions?
>                 >
>                 > I've gotten it to work in the past (very painfully)
>                 by building pygtk by
>                 > hand, like John mentioned on this thread. I'm using
>                 a new cluster now, but I
>                 > would like to avoid doing it that way again if
>                 possible...
>                 >
>                 > I know there is a gitlab thread on ase-gui and python 3
>                 > (https://gitlab.com/ase/ase/issues/13), but I think
>                 that is still a work in
>                 > progress.
>                 >
>                 > Prateek
>                 >
>                 > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Peterson, Andrew
>                 > <andrew_peterson at brown.edu> wrote:
>                 >>
>                 >> This also did not work in Anaconda. I tried
>                 installing PyGObject to it
>                 >> without luck as well. (But if it's python3, I did
>                 not try that.)
>                 >>
>                 >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 3:24 PM, John Kitchin
>                 <jkitchin at andrew.cmu.edu>
>                 >> wrote:
>                 >>>
>                 >>>
>                 >>> >
>                 >>> > Does Canopy/Anaconda have PyGObject?  Does this
>                 work:
>                 >>> >
>                 >>> > >>> from gi.repository import Gtk
>                 >>>
>                 >>> This does not work in Canopy. I can install gi,
>                 but there is no
>                 >>> repository. Canopy is still Python 2.7, is the
>                 repository a 3.0 feature?
>                 >>
>                 >>
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