Setting up a conda environment with probcomp repositories and their dependencies

These instructions are tested on Ubuntu 18.04, different Linux distributions might require small modifications. All of these commands perform a local installation for the current user, they do not modify any system-wide state or require root access.

Retrieve the required installation files.

$ wget https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda2-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -O /tmp/miniconda.sh
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/probcomp/notebook/master/files/conda_python2.txt -O /tmp/conda_python2.txt
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/probcomp/notebook/master/files/conda_probcomp.txt -O /tmp/conda_probcomp.txt

Install conda and environment containing the probcomp software.

$ bash /tmp/miniconda.sh -b -p ${HOME}/miniconda
$ . ${HOME}/miniconda/etc/profile.d/conda.sh
$ conda install --yes conda=4.6.14 conda-build
$ conda create -n probcomp --yes --file /tmp/conda_python2.txt python=2.7
$ conda install -n probcomp --quiet --yes \
    -c probcomp -c cidermole -c fritzo -c ursusest \
    --file /tmp/conda_probcomp.txt

Optional: The line . ${HOME}/miniconda/etc/profile.d/conda.sh needs to be run for the conda command to be available, consider adding this line to your .bashrc or .zshrc file.

Activate the environment and run some tests.

$ conda activate probcomp
$ python -m pytest --pyargs bayeslite

Developing a project.

To develop a project, such as bayeslite, first uninstall it from conda, and build the source directly.

$ conda remove --force bayeslite
$ git clone git@github.com:probcomp/bayeslite
$ python setup.py install