pip install eemeter failing to install. Is statsmodels the culprit or just a symptom?

[matthewgee]

An issue that Devan from Kilowatt Analytics ran into trying to pip install eemeter

I’m guessing this issue is due to the eemeter install not completing without errors. Having just repeated the process I realize that ‘pip install eemeter’ is failing due to an issue with lxml. I had to manually apt-get install lxml as I was previously warned that it was not present when trying to install eemeter. Maybe there’s a lxml version dependency that is causing an issue. Regardless, I cannot seem to install eemeter following the instructions on either github or RTD

[matthewgee]

Success! From Devon:

I’ve managed to successfully install eemeter. It turned out I needed to install lbml and zlib to get the pip install eemeter to complete wihtout errors. Zlib was the last holdout, but I finally realized that’s where the compile was failing.

[matthewgee]

Two ideas for resolving this issue for future users from @marcpare and @philngo:

• Create a docker or vagrant install option
• Recommend first installing anaconda/miniconda for new eemeter users

[philngo]

See #32 for proposed new installation instructions.