Re: Error installing StarCluster 0.95.2 on Windows 7

From: Jacob Barhak <no email>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 21:24:26 -0500

Hi Sergio,

Yes, there were some install warnings if I recall correctly - it was a few weeks ago so I may be confusing with something else. Yet the installation worked for me well afterwards. Again it was 0.95.0 not 0.95.2.

Never the less, I hope things will work for you as well.

         Jacob

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On Mar 12, 2014, at 9:06 PM, Sergio Mafra <sergiohmafra_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Jacob,
>
> It seems that after several atempts, StarCluster has been installled at last thru pip.
> Starcluster is still not working properly, with initialization errors but great improvement so far.
> I'll spend more time tomorrow, trying to discover why is that and let you know of the facts.
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Sérgio
>
> Em quarta-feira, 12 de março de 2014, Sergio Mafra <sergiohmafra_at_gmail.com> escreveu:
>> Hi Jacob,
>>
>> I did try with pip as well.. but got other error. The complete log is appended.
>> All best.
>>
>> Sergio
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Jacob Barhak <jacob.barhak_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Sergio,
>>
>> Did you try pip install starcluster ?
>>
>> I cannot guarantee this will work, yet I was able to install StarCluster after switching to anaconda. However my issue was with 0.95 not with 0.95.2. And I may have used pip or easy install - I recall cagily one broke and the other one worked - yet your configuration may be different.
>>
>> If this does not work let me know and I will try and see what I did once I get to my machine.
>>
>> I hope it will work.
>>
>> Jacob
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Mar 12, 2014, at 7:53 PM, Sergio Mafra <sergiohmafra_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jacob,
>>>
>>> Downloaded the Anaconda Python distro. I´ve got this error:
>>>
>>>
>>> C:\>easy_install StarCluster
>>> Searching for StarCluster
>>> Best match: starcluster 0.95.2
>>> Processing starcluster-0.95.2-py2.7.egg
>>> starcluster 0.95.2 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
>>> Installing starcluster-script.py script to C:\Anaconda\Scripts
>>> Installing starcluster.exe script to C:\Anaconda\Scripts
>>> Installing starcluster.exe.manifest script to C:\Anaconda\Scripts
>>>
>>> Using c:\anaconda\lib\site-packages\starcluster-0.95.2-py2.7.egg
>>> Processing dependencies for StarCluster
>>> Searching for optcomplete>=1.2-devel
>>> Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/optcomplete/
>>> Best match: optcomplete 1.2-devel
>>> Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/o/optcomplete/optcomplete-1.
>>> 2-devel.tar.gz#md5=6392cd0a7154b3394004d5ad9d913d59
>>> Processing optcomplete-1.2-devel.tar.gz
>>> Writing c:\users\smafra1.ons\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-ohzrnm\optcomplete-
>>> 1.2-devel\setup.cfg
>>> Running optcomplete-1.2-devel\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\users\smafra1.
>>> ons\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-ohzrnm\optcomplete-1.2-devel\egg-dist-tmp-oz
>>> arp2
>>> zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
>>> No eggs found in c:\users\smafra1.ons\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-ohzrnm\opt
>>> complete-1.2-devel\egg-dist-tmp-ozarp2 (setup script problem?)
>>> error: Could not find required distribution optcomplete>=1.2-devel
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>> All best.
>>>
>>> Sergio
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Jacob Barhak <jacob.barhak_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Sergio,
>>>
>>> Here is a direct link:
>>>
>>> https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/
>>>
>>> The web site will ask you to leave your contact info, yet the base software is free.
>>>
>>> It will install python with several versions that you can switch between and many other useful packages as well as IDE environments that I find useful. You still need to install StarCluster afterwards yet this worked smoothly for me.
>>>
>>> This company also has an anaconda AMI and instructions how to use it with StarCluster yet this is unrelated here so I am not sending the links to avoid confusion with this thread.
Received on Wed Mar 12 2014 - 22:24:37 EDT