Installation conflicts for mayavi

[Srinivas-Ganti]

Hello,

Does anyone know a tried and tested way to get everything installed and setup correctly?

I want to be able to do all the tutorials so I can eventually try out my own simulations based on the things I learn from the docs page. Would really appreciate everyone for your suggestions! So far, I tried to follow the installation as given on the docs page on my Linux (Ubuntu) machine - first I created a new anaconda env (python 3.7), I then installed pymeep and pymeep extras using

conda create -n mp -c conda-forge pymeep pymeep-extras

This completed successfully and I am able to run the tutorial examples (at the Transmission Spectrum one at the moment).

I then tried to install mayavi using their conda to prepare for the 3D visualisation parts shown in the later tutorials using conda

conda install -c anaconda mayavi

This installation doesnt complete and it seems there are many conflicting packages. I attach the output from the terminal, I get unsatisfiable error.

terminalOutput_myaviInstall.txt
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[Srinivas-Ganti]

Update: Managed to complete the visualisation example with Paraview after converting the numpy.ndarray data to vtk using the h5tovtk utility outside my notebook environment. Still no luck with Mayavi however.

[tummasn]

I recently installed Mayavi and am using it for Meep.
I have taken the following steps:

• new python environment
• install vkt
• install mayavi==4.7.2
• install Meep
• install PyQt

Hope it helps :)

[Srinivas-Ganti]

Hi, thanks for this info. Please could you also specify which version of python you installed in the new environment?

[tummasn]

3.9.13

[Srinivas-Ganti]

this didnt work for me unfortunately. I am unable to complete the mayavi install, I get this error:

ResolvePackageNotFound:

• python=3.1