Conda doesn't find existent binstar package
Question: I'm trying to install the hdf5storage package for my Python 3 installation on
a 64-Bit Windows 8 machine using Anaconda. Just to make sure that everything
was up to date, I did a

    
    
    C:\Users\Baeuerle>conda install binstar
    Fetching package metadata: ..
    Solving package specifications: .
    Package plan for installation in environment C:\Anaconda3:
    
    The following packages will be downloaded:
    
        package                    |            build
        ---------------------------|-----------------
        binstar-0.9.4              |           py34_0         115 KB
        clyent-0.3.2               |           py34_0          13 KB
        conda-3.7.3                |           py34_0         202 KB
        pytz-2014.9                |           py34_0         167 KB
        requests-2.4.3             |           py34_0         607 KB
        setuptools-7.0             |           py34_0         749 KB
        ------------------------------------------------------------
                                               Total:         1.8 MB
    
    The following NEW packages will be INSTALLED:
    
        clyent:     0.3.2-py34_0
    
    The following packages will be UPDATED:
    
        binstar:    0.7.1-py34_0  --> 0.9.4-py34_0
        conda:      3.7.0-py34_0  --> 3.7.3-py34_0
        pytz:       2014.7-py34_0 --> 2014.9-py34_0
        requests:   2.4.1-py34_0  --> 2.4.3-py34_0
        setuptools: 5.8-py34_0    --> 7.0-py34_0
    
    Proceed ([y]/n)?
    
    Fetching packages ...
    binstar-0.9.4- 100% |###############################| Time: 0:00:01 109.73 kB/s
    clyent-0.3.2-p 100% |###############################| Time: 0:00:00  25.88 kB/s
    conda-3.7.3-py 100% |###############################| Time: 0:00:05  39.58 kB/s
    pytz-2014.9-py 100% |###############################| Time: 0:00:00 179.44 kB/s
    requests-2.4.3 100% |###############################| Time: 0:00:02 210.03 kB/s
    setuptools-7.0 100% |###############################| Time: 0:01:30   8.45 kB/s
    setuptools-7.0 100% |###############################| Time: 0:00:03 216.41 kB/s
    Extracting packages ...
    [      COMPLETE      ] |#################################################| 100%
    Unlinking packages ...
    [      COMPLETE      ] |#################################################| 100%
    Linking packages ...
    [      COMPLETE      ] |#################################################| 100%
    

first. Then I did:

    
    
    C:\Users\Baeuerle>binstar show auto/hdf5storage
    Using binstar api site https://api.binstar.org
    Name:    hdf5storage
    Summary: https://github.com/frejanordsiek/hdf5storage
    Access:  public
    Package Types:  conda
    Versions:
       + 0.1.1
    
    To install this package with conda run:
         conda install --channel https://conda.binstar.org/auto hdf5storage
    
    C:\Users\Baeuerle>conda install --channel https://conda.binstar.org/auto hdf5storage
    Fetching package metadata: ...
    Error: No packages found in current win-64 channels matching: hdf5storage
    
    You can search for this package on Binstar with
    
        binstar search -t conda hdf5storage
    
    C:\Users\Baeuerle>
    

So what's the problem here? Obviously the package is there and I used the
recommended command. Why can't conda find it then? Is this an 64-bit issue and
if so what would be the best way to install hdf5storage through anaconda?


Answer: I had the exact same problem with the graph-tool package and the sigcpp
dependency. I'm on osx Yosemite 10.10.

I wanted to install graph-tool. Found the right package for osX on binstar.

    
    
    conda install --channel https://conda.anaconda.org/vgauthier graph-tool
    

and always had the following message

    
    
    Error: Could not find some dependencies for graph-tool: sigcpp
    

Although sigcpp was already installed

    
    
    conda install sigcpp
    Fetching package metadata: ..........
    Solving package specifications: .
    # All requested packages already installed.
    # packages in environment at /Users/aperrier/anaconda/envs/py34:
    #
    sigcpp                    2.3.1                         2
    

What ended up working is to add the channel first to conda and then to install
sigcpp and graph-tool

    
    
    conda config --add channels https://conda.binstar.org/cyclus
    conda install sigcpp
    

Was told that the package was already existing. However then graph-tool
install worked

    
    
    conda config --add channels https://conda.binstar.org/vgauthier
    conda install graph-tool
    

And I was able to finally import graph_tool in ipython

This makes no sense to me but maybe that will help someone with the same
problem.

