18 Oct
2021
18 Oct
'21
9:28 a.m.
Hello Nina,
Not an expert here, but, I did have great success installing NEST in WSL
(Windows Subsystem for Linux). This is a full LINUX front-end
environment in windows 10 and higher. Microsoft re implemented the LINUX
API with windows native tooling allow support and installation of most
standard Linux tools in windows. You can get WSL and a linux distro via
the Windows Store.
Go to the store, type in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and you have a running linux
system in windows where you can then install NEST using the normal
approaches.
This might be good approach if other ways fail. It is not officially
supported but I have been doing NEST development this way for years and
only found small challenges easy to solve.
Sincerely,
Wouter
On 15-Oct-21 12:25, Nina Doorn wrote:
Dear experts,
I have a question about using nest on docker/vscode on my windows PC. I
hope this is the right place to ask since I couldn't answer my question
using the troubleshooting session.
I am using docker to use pyNEST on my windows computer. I have
successfully installed NEST using the instructions mentioned here for
installing on docker:
https://nest-simulator.readthedocs.io/en/v2.20.1/installation/index.html
<https://nest-simulator.readthedocs.io/en/v2.20.1/installation/index.html>.
If I am in the container, I have python version 3.8.10. If I run python
and then try to "import nest" it says there is no module named nest.
Importing other python packages works perfectly in this way. But indeed,
when I look at all the installed packages using pip list, there is no
package called "nest". There is, however "nest-desktop 3.0.3" there.
So
I guess nest is not installed. However, I also don't know how to install
it. If I use pip install nest, another package called nest is installed
that is not the nest simulator (according to: #754
<https://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/issues/754>).
Also, I don't know whether this problem is related or totally unrelated
but it might give some insight: when I am in VScode in the nestsim/nest
container and I click on python: select interpreter, nothing happens, I
cannot select a python interpreter/no window opens. So maybe there is
something wrong with the python installations or the used path?
I hope the problem is clear. I've been trying different things for days
so I would greatly appreciate any help you can offer me!
Thanks in advance and have a nice day!
Kind regards,
Nina Doorn
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