How to install peacock

[yuegrit]

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Hello, everyone. I was confronted with a problem when I installed Peacock into Ubantu according to this instruction https://mooseframework.inl.gov/python/peacock.html. After I inputted command "conda create -n peacock moose-peacock", a error happened like this:
(base) yue@yue-laptop:~$ conda create -n peacock moose-peacock
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed with repodata from current_repodata.json, will retry with next repodata source.
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving environment: \ Killed

Is there anyone that could help me with this error ? Thank you very much.

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(base) yue@yue-laptop:~$ conda create -n peacock moose-peacock
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed with repodata from current_repodata.json, will retry with next repodata source.
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving environment: \ Killed

[GiudGiud]

Hello

Killed likely means you ran out of memory, unless you killed the process yourself with ctrl C

Guillaume

[yuegrit]

Thank you very much. This time, I used a linux-based computer with a memory of 32 Gb according to your suggestion. However, a new problem appear like this:
[cloudam@master ~]$ conda create -n peacock moose-peacock
Channels:

• https://conda.software.inl.gov/public
• anaconda
• intel
• defaults
  Platform: linux-64
  Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
  Solving environment: failed

LibMambaUnsatisfiableError: Encountered problems while solving:

• nothing provides _sysroot_linux-64_curr_repodata_hack 3 h69a702a_13 needed by moose-mpich-4.0.2-build_15

Could not solve for environment specs
The following packages are incompatible
└─ moose-peacock is not installable because there are no viable options
├─ moose-peacock 2022.10.04 would require
│ └─ ca-certificates 2022.9.24 ha878542_0, which does not exist (perhaps a missing channel);
├─ moose-peacock 2022.12.05 would require
│ └─ ca-certificates 2022.12.7 ha878542_0, which does not exist (perhaps a missing channel);
├─ moose-peacock 2023.04.11 would require
│ └─ moose-mpich 4.0.2 build_16, which requires
│ └─ _sysroot_linux-64_curr_repodata_hack 3 h69a702a_14, which does not exist (perhaps a missing channel);
├─ moose-peacock [2023.08.17|2023.08.31|...|2023.11.10] would require
│ └─ paraview, which does not exist (perhaps a missing channel);
└─ moose-peacock 2023.11.29 would require
└─ moose-mpich 4.0.2 build_15, which requires
└─ _sysroot_linux-64_curr_repodata_hack 3 h69a702a_13, which does not exist (perhaps a missing channel).

Could you please help with this problem?

[GiudGiud]

@milljm may know what problem we are having with package dependencies here

[milljm]

Our packages require the conda-forge channel to be made available. And to be strictly used with other packages coming from conda-forge (no mix-and-matching).

This installation looks to be of a miniconda variant (denoting the Anaconda channel there). You can try the following, but it might be necessary to install Miniforge which makes direct use of the 'conda-forge' channel.

conda config --add channels conda-forge
conda config --set channel_priority strict
conda create -n peacock moose-peacock

[milljm]

Also, miniconda is going to be nefariously slow at solving dependencies. This right here:

Solving environment: 

Prepare for this to take some times 40 minutes. It is not broken!

This is why we primarily moved to Miniforge instead (their solver is parallel/threaded, solving dependency chains in a fraction of the time).