ALPS Binary Installation using WSL

[kokasako3]

I use windows. When I run Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) then try to pip install pyalps, it fails with the following messages:

"ERROR: Failed building wheel for pyalps"
"ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (pyalps)."
"note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip."

[egull]

Do you have any additional info or report? For instance, pip can get log files (though I'm not sure how much info they contain):

pip install pyalps --log LOG_FILE

It's hard to help you out without more detailed info about the problem.

[kokasako3]

Yes. There was 114 lines of output. I just copied what was colored. The attached text file shows everything. Using "--log LOG_FILE" suppresses basically all of the output, so I'm not sure if it stores it in a file somewhere else.

pyalps_error.txt

[egull]

looks like you're trying to run nmake but the program does not exist. Do you have it on your machine? If not, can you install it?

[Ooolab]

You can first set the Ubuntu as the Linux system in your WSL installation, according to our video here:
https://alps.comp-phys.org/documentation/install/binary/

Then try:
sudo apt-get cmake

to install the cmake. After that try the pip install pyalps.

[kokasako3]

Ubuntu is the distribution I've been using.

"sudo apt-get cmake" came back with "E: Invalid operation cmake", so I tried "sudo apt-get install cmake", and it sucessfully installed some packages.

Unfortunately "pip.exe install pyalps" still doesn't work. It gives me the exact same output as what's in the text file.

I also tried "sudo apt-get install nmake", but no such package exists.

[iskakoff]

First you need to run sudo apt-get update to index available packages. After that you can install cmake with sudo apt-get install cmake. Also, as you running pip.exe , I am not sure that you actually installing package into WSL.

[kokasako3]

I had a feeling that was the case. It turns out that pip.exe does not install anything into WSL. I'm still fairly new to Linux. To initiate WSL, you can type "wsl" or "wsl.exe", so when "pip" wasn't working, I tried "pip.exe".

[Ooolab]

Since you are using Ubuntu, you should type in command line like in a usual Linux system.
Try "pip install pyalps"
If it says no pip found, then you should install pip first. Make sure you have Python installation before you install pip.

[kokasako3]

Yes. I had to run "sudo apt install python3-pip" to install pip. This is what I get now. Would you recommend the system-wide installation or using a virtual environment like in the tutorial?
pyalps_error2.txt

[iskakoff]

Since Python 3.12, recommended way of installing any packages is via creating virtual environment.

[kokasako3]

I'm able to reproduce the output from the website using WSL. I had to install pip and venv. I'm not sure if I needed cmake. Initially, Jupyter was having trouble finding the pyalps module which I think was because I didn't put my virtual environment in it's own folder, but I eventually got it to work.

[Ooolab]

Great! I am closing this discussion now.