Trouble installing ALPS with VisTrails on Win 7 - Comp-phys-alps-users

15 Nov 2016


      Dear all,
I'm having trouble installing ALPS and VisTrails on Win7. Here is a detailed list of what I did and what didn't work:
Installed VisTrails 2.2.4 from
 https://www.vistrails.org/index.php/Downloads
Installed ALPS2.2b3 binary from
http://alps.comp-phys.org/mediawiki/index.php/Download_and_install_ALPS_2
Installed ALPS-vistrails-2.2.b3 binary from
http://alps.comp-phys.org/mediawiki/index.php/Download_and_install_ALPS_2
Added ALPS to environment variables from control panel (it wasn't possible to do it directly during installation, the installer complained about the "path being too long") as :
Variable Name: ALPS
Variable value: C:\Program Files\ALPS\bin
Opened C:\Program Files\ALPS\tutorials\intro-01-basics with vistrails
The program seems to initialize correctly, then I get:
Critical error: error changing version
(I get this message twice)
The full error message reads:
InvalidPipeline: Pipeline has errors. Please see the detailed message for more information.
Missing package: org.comp-phys.alps
If, within vistrails, I try to enable ALPS from preferences/packages, get:
Initialization of package "ALPS" failed.
The full error message reads:
InitializationFailed: Package 'ALPS' failed to initialize because of the following exceptions:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\VisTrails\vistrails\core\modules\module_registry.py", line 1635, in initialize_package
package.initialize()
File "C:\Program Files\VisTrails\vistrails\core\modules\package.py", line 429, in initialize
__import__(name, globals(), locals(), [])
File "C:\Program Files\VisTrails\vistrails\core\packagemanager.py", line 266, in _import_override
package_importing_directly=False)
File "C:\Program Files\VisTrails\vistrails\core\modules\package.py", line 310, in import_override
res = orig_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File "C:\Program Files\VisTrails\vistrails\packages\alps\init.py", line 22, in <module>
import applications
File "C:\Program Files\VisTrails\vistrails\core\packagemanager.py", line 257, in _import_override
package_importing_directly=True)
File "C:\Program Files\VisTrails\vistrails\core\modules\package.py", line 310, in import_override
res = orig_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File "C:\Program Files\VisTrails\vistrails\packages\alps\applications.py", line 19, in <module>
import tools
File "C:\Program Files\VisTrails\vistrails\core\packagemanager.py", line 257, in _import_override
package_importing_directly=True)
File "C:\Program Files\VisTrails\vistrails\core\modules\package.py", line 310, in import_override
res = orig_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File "C:\Program Files\VisTrails\vistrails\packages\alps\tools.py", line 18, in <module>
from packages.HTTP.init import HTTPFile
File "C:\Program Files\VisTrails\vistrails\core\packagemanager.py", line 257, in _import_override
package_importing_directly=True)
File "C:\Program Files\VisTrails\vistrails\core\modules\package.py", line 331, in import_override
res = orig_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
ImportError: No module named HTTP.init
Time:
2016-11-15 10:03:15,427
Location:
C:\Program Files\VisTrails\vistrails\gui\preferences.py, line 326
Thank you in advance, kind regards
Stefano