How to get most recent changes in a conda installation?

[williamhobbs]

I haven't been able to get all of the dependencies for Herbie working with pip, so I've used Conda/miniforge, which has been great. I may soon want to help a colleague get setup to use Herbie, but with the most recent changes (e.g., #248).

Is there a simple way to get the recent changes in a Conda installation? It doesn't seem like there is a Conda equivalent to pip install git+https://github.com/blaylockbk/Herbie.git. Running that command inside a Conda env after installing Herbie didn't work for me, returning an error that ended with this (which I think is similar to what happened when I tried to install everything with pip instead of Conda originally):

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for pygrib
  Building wheel for eccodes (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for eccodes: filename=eccodes-1.6.1-py3-none-any.whl size=41052 sha256=2be20cebe9debfbef70d2cf45e953650b248d21cc26fa6eacc12a2696a5f4adc
  Stored in directory: c:\users\whobbs\appdata\local\pip\cache\wheels\53\b1\c4\c18dbe22e94d42abfc93519ae60691eed4c8af9fb60fe6713f
  Building wheel for findlibs (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for findlibs: filename=findlibs-0.0.5-py3-none-any.whl size=6954 sha256=c5fbe5111268ce1106f28b9b6323668ecb62eb4e6a3fd717cf586aa3e5c23503
  Stored in directory: c:\users\whobbs\appdata\local\pip\cache\wheels\45\9b\ec\b90c9bd8c078a0ff3c7e6ec60c8ae54483402feb8631a38ae6
Successfully built herbie-data eccodes findlibs
Failed to build cartopy pygrib
ERROR: Could not build wheels for cartopy, pygrib, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

I have very limited experience with git, but have also used curl. My default would be just to have my colleague manually download the relevant file(s) and replace them using Windows File Explorer, but I thought I'd check in case there is something else I'm missing. My colleague has less experience with python/Conda/git/pip/etc. than me, so I'm trying to keep it simple and easy to document and follow.

Thanks!

[blaylockbk]

(I've been meaning to release a new version of Herbie to PyPi; But I'm waiting for the next release of MetPy)

ERROR: Could not build wheels for cartopy, pygrib

What version of Python are you using? I've pretty much moved on to python 3.11 and haven't tested anything earlier.

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I usually create conda envrionments from a file like https://github.com/blaylockbk/Herbie/blob/main/environment.yml

Instead of installing herbie-data from conda forge, you can install Herbie from GitHub (note the deletion and insertion below...)

name: herbie
channels:
  - conda-forge
dependencies:
  - python>=3.11
  - pip
  - rclone # Not used by Herbie, useful if you are downloading data (https://rclone.org/)

-  - herbie-data

  #==============
  # Dependencies
  #==============
  - curl
  - cartopy>=0.22
  - cfgrib>=0.9.10.4
  - dask
  - eccodes
  - geos
  - matplotlib>=3.5.3
  - metpy
  - netcdf4
  - numpy>=1.25
  - pandas>=2.0
  - pygrib>=2.1.4
  - pylint
  - pyproj>=3.6
  - requests>=2.31
  - s3fs
  - toml
  #- wgrib2 # ONLY AVAILABLE ON LINUX. Uncomment if you want this optional dependency.
  - jupyter
  - jupyterlab
  - xarray>=2023.7
  - zarr

  - pip:
      # Borrow some tools from my garage
      - git+https://github.com/blaylockbk/Carpenter_Workshop.git
+     - git+https://github.com/blaylockbk/Herbie.git

Then create the environment with

conda env create -f environment.yml

[williamhobbs]

Thanks. I'll give this a try.

I'm using Python 3.12.0 on one PC (where that error came from) and 3.10.13 on another PC (where I spent the most time trying to get pip to work without Conda a while ago.

[blaylockbk]

I just published 2023.12.1 to PyPI and conda-forge. Maybe that will help you out.

[williamhobbs]

It does. Thank you!