Hi Alex What you're trying to do likely won't work for yt 2.x. It will work for 3.0 but we haven't uploaded that to PyPI yet. You should be able to 'python setup.py install' 3.0 from a checkout of the mercurial repo. If you need to install yt 2.x inside conda, you should be able to install it via 'conda install yt'. Continuum Analytics kindly builds yt for us and hosts a build on their anaconda distribution servers. Hope that helps, Nathan On Wednesday, February 26, 2014, Alex Bogert <bogart.alex@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I am trying to install yt using pip in an anaconda environment I just setup. I am running into an issue with freetype. I installed freetype from this location: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype and I created the freetype.cfg file as shown in the example. Yet, installing with pip produces the same error that it cannot read the FTYPE location from freetype.cfg .

Thanks, Alex

Install Log :

Downloading/unpacking yt Downloading yt-2.6.1.tar.gz (2.3MB): 2.3MB downloaded Running setup.py (path:/global/scratch2/sd/bogert/pip_build_bogert/yt/setup.py) egg_info for package yt non-existing path in 'yt/utilities/spatial': 'tests' PNG_LOCATION: PNG found via ctypes in: /usr/include, /usr/lib64 Reading FTYPE location from freetype.cfg failed. Please place the base directory of your FTYPE install in freetype.cfg and restart. (ex: "echo '/usr/local/' > freetype.cfg" ) You can locate the path by looking for ft2build.h Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: non-existing path in 'yt/utilities/spatial': 'tests'

PNG_LOCATION: PNG found via ctypes in: /usr/include, /usr/lib64

Reading FTYPE location from freetype.cfg failed.

Please place the base directory of your

FTYPE install in freetype.cfg and restart.

(ex: "echo '/usr/local/' > freetype.cfg" )

You can locate the path by looking for ft2build.h