solarEngineering doesn't work with default linux install procedure

[mannanj]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Follow the install procedure (wiki).
2. Run solarEngineering.
3. You get an exception: pygraphviz library is missing.

Expected behavior:

1. solarEngineering runs correctly.

[dpinney]

Dang. No apt-get for the first step? And is there an apt-get python-pygraphviz?

[mannanj]

That seems to have worked without error as well (it installed the new python graph-viz library). But doubtful it will work without requiring graphviz libs. Was this all you had to do in production?

solar engineering doesn't work without pygraphviz installed, with requires the following for a Linux Mint OS:

-Graphviz download & install from http://www.graphviz.org/Download_linux_ubuntu.php -graphviz-dev libraries: apt-get install libgraphviz-dev -install pygraphviz: easy_install pygraphviz (pip install doesn't seem to work here)

I can go ahead and install it on Windows and list the procedure here as well.

[dpinney]

Come by and let's discuss.

[mannanj]

Original comment updated and made more clear.

Further problems and solutions stated below. Identical problems encountered on both Ubuntu 15.04 and 14.04

• Problem 1: Wiki install procedure errors at step 4.

  sudo python setup.py develop

  Install procedure fails at installing Mock due to Setuptools version requirement >= 17.1(12.2 comes installed by default on a stock image).

• Solution: Run pip install setuptools --upgrade
• Problem 2: Can't find pydot.

• Solution: Uninstall pyparsing and pydot, install an older version of pyparsing and pydot as shown.

  pip install -Iv https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyparsing/pyparsing-1.5.7.tar.gz#md5=9be0fcdcc595199c646ab317c1d9a709
  
  pip install pydot

• Problem 3: Graphviz executables not found.
• Solution: sudo apt-get install python-pygraphviz
• Problem 4: List index out of range:
• Solution: (Being actively debugged) Potentially a problem with cleanG graph type variable not containing what it should and generating the list index out of range error. What it should be is a graph type variable to be entered into the graphviz function. Having difficulty figuring out what it should be, and printing it and its various items (simple print of cleanG doesn't output anything).

[mannanj]

Worked on this for another hour and got stuck, I propose this be closed.

[dpinney]

I updated the wiki and requirements.txt. Closing.