Esmvaltool: Can't install ESMValTool using instructions from anaconda.org

[jonnyhtw]

Hi there

Currently the instructions for installing the ESMValTool on the Anaconda website result in the following errors...

> conda install -c esmvalgroup esmvaltool
Fetching package metadata ...............
Solving package specifications:

PackageNotFoundError: Packages missing in current channels:

  - esmvaltool -> yamale

We have searched for the packages in the following channels:

  - https://conda.anaconda.org/esmvalgroup/linux-64
  - https://conda.anaconda.org/esmvalgroup/noarch
  - https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64
  - https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch
  - https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/main/linux-64
  - https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/main/noarch
  - https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/linux-64
  - https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/noarch
  - https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/r/linux-64
  - https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/r/noarch
  - https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/linux-64
  - https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/noarch

After some consultation with the developers, the following code does work however...

conda install -c esmvalgroup -c conda-forge -c birdhouse esmvaltool

Presumably the documentation needs to be changed or the relevant packages moved or copied to conda-forge?

Thanks!

Jonny

[bjoernbroetz]

Thanks for reporting! I can confirm the problem. Can you have a look @fdiblen ?

[bouweandela]

The install command shown on anaconda.org is indeed incorrect, but unfortunately it looks like it cannot be edited. Of course we can add some information to our README.md here on github.

Note that we are in the process of getting esmvaltool version 2 on conda-forge. However, we are still at alpha release stage, so we felt that right now was a bit early, that's why we opted for our own conda channel for now, see issue https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValTool/issues/6.

Note that the package on anaconda does not work with NCL at the moment, because it is affected by #543. We will have a new release 2.0a1 and package soon.

[jonnyhtw]

Thanks a lot for that 😄

Jonny

[bouweandela]

The latest release, v2.0a1 is now available on anaconda.org. I've added a note with the correct installation instructions in the description.