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Question. Where is gmt when installed via Conda?!? #632

Closed isobelrlawrence closed 5 years ago

isobelrlawrence commented 5 years ago

Hello,

I previously installed GMT using Homebrew and have been using it happily for years. I have also been running Python 3.7 managed by Anaconda. Last week something happened, not really sure what but I think it was a package dependency problem, and GMT stopped working.

I've decided to install GMT now with conda to try and avoid dependency conflicts; so I ran

conda install gmt --channel conda-forge

as suggested on the installation Wiki. It said it installed fine but when i type 'gmt' at the command line, nothing is found. And 'import gmt' in python also returns nothing.

So my question is... where is this GMT installed via conda and how do I use it?

Many thanks

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leouieda commented 5 years ago

Hi @isobelrlawrence, thanks for reporting the issue :1st_place_medal:

where is this GMT installed via conda

All conda install packages go into the folder where you installed Anaconda. On linux and Mac, I think this is usually ~/anaconda but it depends on where you decided during setup. The gmt executable should be in the bin folder in that directory.

how do I use it?

It should be put in your PATH by default. Could you please post here the output of conda list --show-channel-urls?

And 'import gmt' in python also returns nothing.

It shouldn't, since you installed GMT and not PyGMT. That was a terrible naming choice on my part to have the Python wrapper called gmt. That's part of the reason why the project was renamed pygmt. Note that PyGMT is not yet released so there is no conda package for it.