conda-forge can't find pymeep with parallelization on Mac

[begichev]

When I try to get pymeep with mpich on Mac OS Big Sur 11.7.4, I type in the terminal: conda create -n pmp -c conda-forge pymeep=*=mpi_mpich_* And this results in this error: zsh: no matches found: pymeep=*=mpi_mpich_* With the same steps I installed parallel Meep easily on Ubuntu and didn't have this problem. If I understand correctly, conda-forge can't find suitable versions. However I can see them in repository https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pymeep/files. So i tried to 'help' conda-forge and clarify exact files to pick up with line: conda create -n pmp -c conda-forge pymeep-1.28.0-mpi_mpich_py39h1234567_2 This didn't work either. But the respone from command line was different: `Channels:

• conda-forge
• defaults Platform: osx-64 Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done Solving environment: failed

PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:

• pymeep-1.28.0-mpi_mpich_py39h1234567_2` Can you please suggest any steps how to proceed with parallel meep installation? I also tried updating conda, running from different environments (base, meep), setting the $TMPDIR to /tmp, but all with no effect.

[begichev]

Ok, this was a bit stupid, but putting this in quotation marks 'pymeep==mpimpich' worked fine on Mac.