phantomjs is missing for linux? about aggregate HOT 6 OPEN

Should this have been filed at conda-forge?

In any event, am seeing osx-64, linux-64, win-64, and win-32 in descending order (screenshot below). Is there something else that prompted this issue (e.g. trouble installing on Linux)?

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Yes, issues with conda-forge packages should be filed on the corresponding conda-forge feedstock repo.

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I'm confused :) I was sent to this repository from Anaconda's internal messaging system. At the time I made this issue, I needed a feature of bokeh (png export) that depended on phantomjs. I don't know if it's still the case that phantomjs is required by bokeh for that feature, although according to the docs it does seem to be so: https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide/export.html#exporting-plots. Meanwhile, it still appears that I can't install phantomjs from defaults:

$ conda install -c defaults phantomjs
Solving environment: failed

PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:

  - phantomjs

Current channels:

  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/linux-64
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/free/linux-64
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/free/noarch
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/linux-64
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/pro/linux-64
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/pro/noarch

To search for alternate channels that may provide the conda package you're
looking for, navigate to

    https://anaconda.org

and use the search bar at the top of the page.

I think this means bokeh's png export is not available by default on linux with Anaconda distribution (e.g. when installed where there is no internet access), but I might be wrong.

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Ah, I see why I have caused confusion. As requested, I pasted links to the relevant package on conda-forge, but of course it looks like I'm suggesting the package is missing from conda-forge. Sorry about that.

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I believe bokeh ships their own phantomjs, which is probably repackaged from upstream binaries. A very long time ago, I attempted to package phantomjs, but I only remember it was a huge pain, and I may not have succeeded. We can put it on our list to revisit.

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That use to be true (at least from what I remember). It seems their best practices have shifted to using as much as possible from defaults, then conda-forge, and then grabbing some select things from the bokeh channel (basing this off this developer recommendation). That channel seems to only have packages they are doing active development on. So bokeh, colorcet, and datashader.

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