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pdfgui - advise to reactivate old conda packages
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@@ -42,10 +42,26 @@ As a prerequisite for PDFgui installation, download and
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install **Anaconda for Python 2.7** from
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|anaconda-download|.
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.. TODO -- remove when PDFgui is compatible with wxpython 4
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.. important::
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As of July 2019 Anaconda stopped providing older versions
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of several packages that are required by PDFgui
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(details `here
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<https://www.anaconda.com/why-we-removed-the-free-channel-in-conda-4-7>`__).
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We are working on making PDFgui compatible with the current
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set of Anaconda packages.
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In the meantime to install PDFgui you must
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re-activate the old Anaconda packages as follows ::
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conda update -n base conda
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conda config --set restore_free_channel true
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.. note::
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If you already use Anaconda for Python 3.5, create a separate
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If you already use Anaconda for Python 3.7, create a separate
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Anaconda environment *py27* which will provide Python 2.7
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instead of 3.5. ::
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instead of 3.7. ::
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conda create --name=py27 python=2.7
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source activate py27

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