title: How can I use conda to install pydot?
body: <p>Trying to generate some PDF's of decision trees by following <a href="http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/tree.html#classification">some of the sklearn documentation</a>, but can't get Pydot on my machine.  Is there any way to use the conda installer to install the pydot package?  Based on the command line errors I'm seeing, it may be a 64bit issue. I use binstar search to find the package channel:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\binstar search -t conda 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which gives the recommendation of looking at the packages in detail using</p>
  
  <pre><code>binstar show j14r/pydot
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which then tells me to</p>
  
  <pre><code>conda install --channel https://conda.binstar.org/j14r pydot
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when I run the conda install command, I get the following error (same error for all the pydot packages listed):</p>
  
  <pre><code>Fetching package metadata: ...
  Error: No Packages found in current win-64 channels matching: pydot
  You can search for this package with 
  
  binstar search t conda pydot
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which sends me back to the beginning of this all.  Any ideas?  Thanks all.</p>