problem installing autophot

[FeliceCusano]

Hi

I am trying to install autophot in Ubuntu on WSL, but I get this error: 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: \ Killed

I checked and I have conda-forge and astropy in my channels. Do you know which can be the problem? thanks! Felix

[Astro-Sean]

Hey Felix,

Can I get an example of what you're entering in the terminal to install? Have you created a fresh conda enviroment?

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[FeliceCusano]

Hi Sean

thanks for your answer. I running the steps for the installation listed in the readme file, in details: 1) conda create -n autophot_env python=3.7 2) conda activate autophot_env 3) conda install -c astro-sean autophot

after point 3) I get this error 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: \ Killed

cheers, Felix

[jamesgillanders]

Hi Felix,

How long did you leave the "Solving environment:" to run before killing it? This process can take quite some time (up to ~10 minutes) to run (at least for me!). If it takes much longer than this, perhaps look at this (https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/8051#issuecomment-1407107812).

Specifically, try the following commands:

conda deactivate conda update conda

making sure that the first command take you out of the root (base) directory.

Alternatively, you could try installing the package with mamba (https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/mamba.html) instead of conda, using the following:

conda create -n autophot_env python=3.7 mamba=0.5 conda activate autophot_env mamba install -c astro-sean autophot