Difficulties setting up conda environment

[SimonTreu]

I followed the steps in the README.md to install the conda environment. It always got stuck with the message "failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve" when running
conda install netCDF4 pytables matplotlib arviz
Maybe specific version numbers need to be specified?
It might also be better to provide an environment.yml file

[SimonTreu]

I retried to install the environment with
conda create -n attrici python=3.7 pymc3=3.7
Note that I used = instead of ==

This did not solve the issue

Then I tried to install the packages one by one.

• installing netCDF4 ran without any issues
• installing matplotlib, pytables and arviz also showed the "failed with initial frozen solve" but then it continued with the installation.

[SimonTreu]

The arviz package is not used anymore. I removed it from my env

[SimonTreu]

There is an environment.yml in conf/environment.yml
When we have a minimal working environment we should update this in the master branch

[A-Buch]

At least for the latest ubuntu version on WSL2 the easiest way is to install via the config/environment.yml

ToDo

• The develop_flood and test_input branches can be deleted/merged. Only the installation part mentioned in the readme.md is useful - it describes the installation for wsl2 which uses the latest ubuntu version
• merge readme.md about attrici installation from branch develop_flood to interpolated_parameters

[SimonTreu]

@AnnaBooki did you get the code running on the pik cluster?

[A-Buch]

I also used the yml file to set up the conda env on the cluster