Installing stack and maf on El Capitan "Unable to find an acceptable version of <package>"

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#1

Using newinstall.sh and installing miniconda I keep running into

"Unable to find an acceptable version of "

I am reinstalling the stack since my installation is old (and performing a new installation would put me in a better place to help members of my SC that are new at this). Nonetheless, I think I removed all old packages and env vars that I had installed previously and I reinstalled from scratch using newinstall.sh
I am working on an empty dir and there are no LSST env variables lying around that I can tell.

sequence of commands:
curl -OL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lsst/lsst/13.0/scripts/newinstall.sh
source newinstall.sh
source loadLSST.bash
setup sims_maf -t sims

Unable to find an acceptable version of sims"

thank you for your help

#2

At what point in the process do you get the Unable to find an acceptable veresion of <package> error? When you run eups distrib install <package> or when you run setup <package>?

(sorry… I now see that you have answered this question)

#3

sorry - i edited the post (i got trigger happy w the return button)

#4

Running source loadLSST.bash sets up an LSST-friendly environment, but doesn’t actually install anything. You need to run eups distrib install sims_maf -t sims to actually install MAF on your computer. Then setup sims_maf -t sims ought to work.

Note: installing MAF takes between 1 and 2 hours on a MacBook.

#5

So the sequence should be:

curl -OL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lsst/lsst/13.0/scripts/newinstall.sh
bash newinstall.sh
source loadLSST.bash
eups distrib install sims_maf -t sims
setup sims_maf -t sims

(note: I do not think you should be running newinstall.sh with source. That has always gone poorly for me)

#6

sorry, edited: i did have that command in the sequence.

eups distrib install sims_maf -t sims

I will try again without running newinstall.sh with source - I will be off for a few hours though so I’ll report back tonight

#7

If you still get the error, one thing to try would be

eups list sims_maf

This will print to the screen a list of all of the versions of MAF that EUPS knows about.

#8

ok, which version should I have? ( I was trying to parse the eups files to figure it out but it wasnt immediately obvious)

#9

I would expect the output from eups list sims_maf to include a line like this

   2.3.5.sims+2 	sims sims_2_3_5_1

If you are still getting the error you reported, I would just be interested to see what eups list sims_maf produces, since the error you reported is consistent with not having MAF installed at all.

I am not sure how versioning information on newinstall.sh is stored. I would not expect an out of date newinstall.sh to produce the bug you reported (I am working with a newinstall.sh that is at least a year old, and everything runs fine).

#10

Unable to find an acceptable version of <package> means that no version is current. Does eups list <package> show any versions? If so, try setup <package> <version> and if that works you can make it the default (“current”) with eups declare --current <package> <versions> after which setup <package> will work.

#11

We try to avoid needing current for the sims stack. That is why we append the -t sims tag to every release we make, so that users can do setup lsst_sims -t sims.

#12

A user may well chose to set “current” locally. However, what I was explaining what the error about “acceptable versions” meant.

#13

@RHL Right - “no acceptable versions” shows up if BOTH no version is set as current AND you do not use a tag to set up the package. Because sims uses a different DM release than is usually marked as “current” for DM, we do not automatically mark a version current (and we don’t direct our users to either, because it’s easier to just tell them to use “-t sims” to set up each package).

#14

-T current is exactly equivalent to just accepting the default. You should really be using -T sims not -t sims to get the equivalent functionality.