Incubator-superset: Issues with caravel command (Windows 10)

[jragonesi]

Has anyone had success running caravel from the command prompt on Windows 10? I was able to run the installation successfully with pip but could not initialize the database. The command prompt gives the error below, unrecognized command. I verified the environmental variables had the correct path. I changed the caravel script file to a .exe so that I could run it at the command prompt. I received an error (below) stating the file was not compatible with a 64 bit system. Has anyone had success with this phase of the installation in Windows?

C:>caravel db upgrade
'caravel' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:>caravel db upgrade
This version of C:\Users\Work Station\Anaconda3\Scripts\caravel is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information and then contact the software publisher.

[gbrian]

Try python caravel db upgrade

[jragonesi]

thanks, i had to drill down to the bin directory:

C:\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\caravel\bin

once i was there the python command worked as it should. much appreciated.

[andrewhn]

I had the same issue on win 10. Seems the scripts argument in the setup.py file isn't working for some reason, where it is on Linux. Possibly upstream?

[cons0l3]

The setup.py should be switched from using "scripts" to using automatic script creation via entry_points. I have tried it locally, but not going to open a PR. maybe someone from the core team can implement the fix.

[dmenin]

Here's how I solved it:

Go to the installation folder (in my case):
C:\Anaconda2\Lib\site-packages\caravel\bin>

and type:
python caravel db upgrade

[roemhildtg]

I too was having problems with this, but as @dmenin mentioned, I was able to navigate into virtualenv\scripts and type python caravel db upgrade.

I'm stuck here though, it runs a bunch of flask_appbuilder.base commands and stalls out on

Running upgrade -> 4e6a09bad7a8, Init. Is this happening to anyone else?

[bmogili-involve]

I cannot install caravel on my windows system. Please let me know how would we do it?

[gbrian]

@bmogili-involve which error?
BTW for running in Windows use "runserver -d" and optional a port, reason is gunicorn is not available for windows.

Hope this helps

[JoeBrody]

Went into my installation folder
C:\Users\Me\DocumentsGitHub\caravel-master\caravel-master\caravel\bin
Entered Command:
python caravel db upgrade

Got this message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "caravel", line 8, in
import celery
ImportError: No module named 'celery'

Any ideas on this?

[roemhildtg]

@JoeBrody pip install celery should fix that.

[xrmx]

I don't think there's much actionable here, closing.

[github35]

I spent two days to solve sasl depency problem on Windows. If anyone had the same problem, please refer to this link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26505882/unable-to-install-sasl-0-1-3-python-package-on-windows-machine

[EvanGerry]

modify cli.py method（runserver） modify debug to True
then run superset server do not use gunicorn start 👍

def runserver(debug, no_reload, address, port, timeout, workers, socket):
    """Starts a Superset web server."""
    debug = debug or config.get("DEBUG")
    """modify debug to True"""
    if True:
        app.run(
            host='0.0.0.0',
            port=int(port),
            threaded=True,
            debug=True,
            use_reloader=no_reload)
    else:
        addr_str = " unix:{socket} " if socket else" {address}:{port} "
        cmd = (
            "gunicorn "
            "-w {workers} "
            "--timeout {timeout} "
            "-b " + addr_str +
            "--limit-request-line 0 "
            "--limit-request-field_size 0 "
            "superset:app").format(**locals())
        print("Starting server with command: " + cmd)
        Popen(cmd, shell=True).wait()

[mistercrunch]

Isn't it the same as running superset runserver -d ? BTW I wouldn't recommend running the debug server in production.