trouble installing caiman

[pristscats]

Please fill in the following for any issues

Your setup:

1. Operating System (Linux, MacOS, Windows): Windows
2. Hardware type (x86, ARM..) and RAM: x64
3. Python Version (e.g. 3.9): 3.12.8
4. Caiman version (e.g. 1.9.12): most up-to-date version (12/14/2024)
5. Which demo exhibits the problem (if applicable): n/a
6. How you installed Caiman (pure conda, conda + compile, colab, ..): conda
7. Details:
   On step 1 of installing Caiman, I try to run: conda activate caiman # activate virtual environment
   But I run into the error:
   EnvironmentNameNotFound: Could not find conda environment: caiman
   You can list all discoverable environments with conda info --envs.

[pgunn]

Is this after you do the mamba create ... step?

[pristscats]

Yes, this is after successfully running the first two lines in step 1.

[pgunn]

Two questions then:
A) Did you get any errors in the command that created the environment, and
B) What do you see when you do a conda env list

[pristscats]

A) No
B)

[pgunn]

It's a bit surprising that it made the environment where it did and without a name.

We can either try to make it more normal (removing the existing conda install and its condarc, perhaps switching to miniforge) or you can, whenever you want to activate the environment, do this instead of conda activate caiman:

conda activate c:\users\kurtisl2\.local\share\mamba\envs\caiman

Either route would work.

[pristscats]

The second option works, thank you!

[pristscats]

After trying to run caimanmanager install, the following comes up:

[pgunn]

Can you activate the environment and send me the output of conda list?

[pristscats]

It's pretty long, so here's just a part of it.

[pgunn]

Somehow that environment ended up with a mix of packages from conda and from pypi. Did you use pip in any stage of setting up the environment?

[pristscats]

No, I only followed the quick start steps.

[pgunn]

Hm. We'll need to start over, and before we do so, I suggest you remove the environment (that path we typed in) and then conda itself. Then go grab this and start the install process:

https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/download/24.11.0-1/Miniforge3-24.11.0-1-Windows-x86_64.exe

Hopefully this time it will neither install to a path nor end up with pypi packages in the list.

[pgunn]

If you run into hiccups, we could try it with a videoconference and screen share, but it'd be good to try it on your own first to see if it might go smoothly.