Varadarajan, Try setting the environment variable PNG_DIR to your libpng location before running pip. Best, John Z John ZuHone Laboratory for High-Energy Astrophysics NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center 8800 Greenbelt Rd., Mail Code 662 Greenbelt, MD 20771 (w) 301-286-2531 (m) 781-708-5004 john.zuhone@nasa.gov jzuhone@gmail.com

On Jun 16, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Michael Zingale wrote:

I'm running the latest yt on Fedora 20 on several machines without issue. I assume that you have libpng installed, right?

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On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Varadarajan Parthasarathy wrote: Greetings,

I am having an installation problem with yt in Fedora 20. I used pip install yt

Downloading/unpacking yt Downloading yt-2.6.2.tar.gz (2.4MB): 2.4MB downloaded Running setup.py egg_info for package yt /bin/sh: svnversion: command not found non-existing path in 'yt/utilities/spatial': 'tests' It seems that include prefix is different from lib prefix Please use either env variable or cfg to set proper path Reading PNG location from png.cfg failed. Please place the base directory of your PNG install in png.cfg and restart. (ex: "echo '/usr/local/' > png.cfg" ) You can locate the path by looking for png.h Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: /bin/sh: svnversion: command not found

non-existing path in 'yt/utilities/spatial': 'tests'

It seems that include prefix is different from lib prefix

Please use either env variable or cfg to set proper path

Reading PNG location from png.cfg failed.

Please place the base directory of your

PNG install in png.cfg and restart.

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

You can locate the path by looking for png.h

I tried doing echo /usr/local/ > png.cfg and even tried with /usr/ > png.cfg, but it did not help. Did any other Fedora 20 user face the same issue ?

Regards, Varadarajan

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