LinkError conda.core.link:_execute(740) when creating an environment with Jupyter

[amole-arup]

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What happened?

I tried to create an environment using conda env create -f file.yml, containing python 3.10 and jupyter, nbconvert and ipympl using conda-forge channel. It completed "transaction preparation" and "verification" and was carrying out the "transaction execution" when it failed with the following error: '"C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\miniforge3\envs\arup-env2\Scripts\jupyter-nbextension.exe"' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Any idea why this should be the case and what we can do to fix it?

The full error is as follows:

(base) C:\Users\user.name>conda env create -f "YAML-files\arup-env.yml"
Retrieving notices: ...working... done
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving environment: done


==> WARNING: A newer version of conda exists. <==
  current version: 23.3.1
  latest version: 24.3.0

Please update conda by running

    $ conda update -n base -c conda-forge conda

Or to minimize the number of packages updated during conda update use

     conda install conda=24.3.0



Downloading and Extracting Packages

Preparing transaction: done
Verifying transaction: done
Executing transaction: | '"C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\miniforge3\envs\arup-env2\Scripts\jupyter-nbextension.exe"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

done
ERROR conda.core.link:_execute(740): An error occurred while installing package 'conda-forge::widgetsnbextension-3.5.2-py310h5588dad_1'.
Rolling back transaction: done

LinkError: post-link script failed for package conda-forge::widgetsnbextension-3.5.2-py310h5588dad_1
location of failed script: C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\miniforge3\envs\arup-env2\Scripts\.widgetsnbextension-post-link.bat
==> script messages <==
'"C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\miniforge3\envs\arup-env2\Scripts\jupyter-nbextension.exe"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

==> script output <==
stdout:
stderr:
return code: 1

()


(base) C:\Users\user.name>conda activate arup-env2

(arup-env2) C:\Users\user.name>conda list
# packages in environment at C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\miniforge3\envs\arup-env2:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel

(arup-env2) C:\Users\user.name>

Conda Info

(base) C:\Users\user.name>conda info

     active environment : base
    active env location : C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\miniforge3
            shell level : 1
       user config file : C:\Users\user.name\.condarc
 populated config files : C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\miniforge3\.condarc
                          C:\Users\user.name\.condarc
          conda version : 23.3.1
    conda-build version : not installed
         python version : 3.10.12.final.0
       virtual packages : __archspec=1=x86_64
                          __cuda=12.2=0
                          __win=0=0
       base environment : C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\miniforge3  (writable)
      conda av data dir : C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\miniforge3\etc\conda
  conda av metadata url : None
           channel URLs : https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/win-64
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch
          package cache : C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\miniforge3\pkgs
                          C:\Users\user.name\.conda\pkgs
                          C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
       envs directories : C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\miniforge3\envs
                          C:\Users\user.name\.conda\envs
                          C:\Users\user.name\micromamba\envs
                          C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
               platform : win-64
             user-agent : conda/23.3.1 requests/2.31.0 CPython/3.10.12 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.22631
          administrator : False
             netrc file : None
           offline mode : False


(base) C:\Users\user.name>

Conda Config

(base) C:\Users\user.name>conda config --show-sources
==> C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\miniforge3\.condarc <==
channels:
  - conda-forge

==> C:\Users\user.name\.condarc <==
auto_activate_base: True
envs_dirs:
  - C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\miniforge3\envs\
  - C:\Users\user.name\.conda\envs\
  - C:\Users\user.name\micromamba\envs\
  - C:\Users\user.name\Jesmond\
ssl_verify: C:\ProgramData\Arup\Certificates\curl-ca-bundle.crt
channel_priority: strict
channels:
  - conda-forge


(base) C:\Users\user.name>

Conda list

(arup-env2) C:\Users\user.name>conda list --show-channel-urls
# packages in environment at C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\miniforge3\envs\arup-env2:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel

(arup-env2) C:\Users\user.name>

Additional Context

These are the contents of the environment file...

name: arup-env2
channels:
  - conda-forge
dependencies:
  - python=3.10
  # Excel interaction
  - openpyxl
  - xlrd
  - xlwt
  - xlwings
  # Jupyter notebooks
  - jupyter
  - nbconvert
  - ipympl
  # Plotting
  - matplotlib
  - seaborn
  - bokeh
  - plotly
  # Dataframes for vector & tabular data
  - pandas
  - xarray
  - scipy
  - numba
  - qgrid
  - dtale
  # Machine learning
  - scikit-learn
  - keras
  # GIS
  - geopandas
  - shapely
  - rasterio
  - pyproj
  # .NET & DLL interaction
  - pythonnet
  # Code testing, checking and formatting
  - pytest
  - pycodestyle
  - flake8
  - mccabe
  - pyflakes
  - black
  - pydantic
  - mypy
  # Microsoft Authentication
  - msal
  # Graphical user interfaces
  - easygui
  - gooey
  # Automation
  - pywinauto
  - pip
  - pip:
    - pyrevit    
    - sectionproperties
    - sectionproperties[pardiso]
    - sectionproperties[dxf]   
    - sectionproperties[rhino]

[travishathaway]

Hi @amole-arup,

I think this may be an issue with the package, "widgetsnbextension". I would recommend filing a bug issue over at their feedstock because we have no control over the high this package is built but they do. Here's the link:

• https://github.com/conda-forge/widgetsnbextension-feedstock

Feel free to reference this issue there.