Set-up notes on Windows

[Robinlovelace]

Making some notes here from recent installation experience.

• Installed Chocolatey
• Installed miniconda3
• Installed VS Code
• Installed the Quarto plugin in VS Code

At that point I tried running some Python code and was asked to select the Python Interpreter:

[Robinlovelace]

Happily it found the miniconda interpreter:

[Robinlovelace]

This is so variable per OS and with so many different options (including Quarto/Jupyter) I definitely think it deserves a decent section, in the Appendix #19 .

[Robinlovelace]

First time I tried to run some Python code I got this:

[Robinlovelace]

Unfortunately that failed? Any ideas Michael or Anita?? A bit confused, error message after clicking on message above suggests I'm in an infinite loop if I keep clicking Install!

[michaeldorman]

From my experience you need to open the Miniconda as administrator, and then:

conda install -c conda-forge ipykernel

Maybe the VScode button does this as ordinary non-administrator user, and that's why it's not working?

[Robinlovelace]

Will try. So far I've got...

(base) C:\Users\robinadmin\gh\geocompr\py>conda env create -f environment.yml
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): failed

CondaError: KeyboardInterrupt

Terminate batch job (Y/N)?

[michaeldorman]

(Also, the ipykernel package should be included in the requirements.txt file which as part of the setup of all packages used in the book)

[michaeldorman]

Will try. So far I've got...

(base) C:\Users\robinadmin\gh\geocompr\py>conda env create -f environment.yml
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): failed

CondaError: KeyboardInterrupt

Terminate batch job (Y/N)?

Interesting... I haven't tried creating environments yet

[Robinlovelace]

Things are happening...

[Robinlovelace]

Wow almost 20 minutes later and it's still not finished...

[michaeldorman]

I think it's normal, took a long time for me too

[Robinlovelace]

It's done 🎉 and gave me this helpfull message:

Executing transaction: done
#
# To activate this environment, use
#
#     $ conda activate geocompy
#
# To deactivate an active environment, use
#
#     $ conda deactivate

[Robinlovelace]

You may need to set your environment to geocompy or another an environment with the necessary packages by clicking on the top right button in VS Code:

[Robinlovelace]

One question: any idea how to change the default kernel/environment?

[Robinlovelace]

It's working but not sure what causes this message...

[michaeldorman]

It's working but not sure what causes this message...

This warning is always displayed when reading GPKG

[Robinlovelace]

This warning is always displayed when reading GPKG

Any ideas why? See geopandas/geopandas#2385 FYI

[michaeldorman]

This warning is always displayed when reading GPKG

Any ideas why? See geopandas/geopandas#2385 FYI

There is an answer here, though can't say I understand it :-)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64995369/geopandas-warning-on-read-file

[anitagraser]

Wow almost 20 minutes later and it's still not finished...

We could recommend mamba instead of conda. It's a much faster solver. https://mamba.readthedocs.io/

[Robinlovelace]

That sounds good to me, pls give it a bash if you get a chance.

[Robinlovelace]

Update on this here: