Install Azure ML WorkBench Failure

Posted on 2018-07-22 Edited on 2019-11-09 In Tech

I want to install AML to explore its capabilities,to gauge whether it will help my machine learning works.
I follow the official installation steps.
But I am unfavorable.Repeated failed many times and got the following log(There are a lot of logs, I only intercepted some of them that seem to be related to the reason for the failure.):

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2018/7/13 2:37:56 30: Installer [Information] - 0: Executing command: /Users/liguang/Library/Caches/AmlWorkbench/Python/bin/python -s -E -m conda install --no-deps --yes --force --offline "/private/tmp/AmlInstaller/six.macos-1.11.0/six-1.11.0-py35_1.tar.bz2"
2018/7/13 2:37:58 33: Installer [Information] - 0: Returned exit code 1
2018/7/13 2:37:58 33: Installer [Information] - 0: Output: [02:37:58] StandardError: An unexpected error has occurred.
[02:37:58] StandardError: Please consider posting the following information to the
[02:37:58] StandardError: conda GitHub issue tracker at:
[02:37:58] StandardError:
[02:37:58] StandardError: https://github.com/conda/conda/issues
[02:37:58] StandardError:
[02:37:58] StandardError:
[02:37:58] StandardError:
[02:37:58] StandardError: Current conda install:
[02:37:58] StandardError:
[02:37:58] StandardError: platform : osx-64
[02:37:58] StandardError: conda version : 4.3.27
[02:37:58] StandardError: conda is private : False
[02:37:58] StandardError: conda-env version : 4.3.27
[02:37:58] StandardError: conda-build version : not installed
[02:37:58] StandardError: python version : 3.5.2.final.0
[02:37:58] StandardError: requests version : 2.11.1
[02:37:58] StandardError: root environment : /Users/liguang/Library/Caches/AmlWorkbench/Python (writable)
[02:37:58] StandardError: default environment : /Users/liguang/Library/Caches/AmlWorkbench/Python
[02:37:58] StandardError: envs directories : /Users/liguang/Library/Caches/AmlWorkbench/Python/envs
[02:37:58] StandardError: /Users/liguang/.conda/envs
[02:37:58] StandardError: package cache : /Users/liguang/Library/Caches/AmlWorkbench/Python/pkgs
[02:37:58] StandardError: /Users/liguang/.conda/pkgs
[02:37:58] StandardError: channel URLs : https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/main/osx-64 (offline)
[02:37:58] StandardError: https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/main/noarch (offline)
[02:37:58] StandardError: https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/osx-64 (offline)
[02:37:58] StandardError: https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/noarch (offline)
[02:37:58] StandardError: https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/r/osx-64 (offline)
[02:37:58] StandardError: https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/r/noarch (offline)
[02:37:58] StandardError: https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/osx-64 (offline)
[02:37:58] StandardError: https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/noarch (offline)
[02:37:58] StandardError: config file : None
[02:37:58] StandardError: netrc file : None
[02:37:58] StandardError: offline mode : True
[02:37:58] StandardError: user-agent : conda/4.3.27 requests/2.11.1 CPython/3.5.2 Darwin/17.6.0 OSX/10.13.5
[02:37:58] StandardError: UID:GID : 501:20
[02:37:58] StandardError:
[02:37:58] StandardError: $ /Users/liguang/Library/Caches/AmlWorkbench/Python/lib/python3.5/site-packages/conda/__main__.py install --no-deps --yes --force --offline /private/tmp/AmlInstaller/six.macos-1.11.0/six-1.11.0-py35_1.tar.bz2
[02:37:58] StandardError:
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In the case of web search solutions, I did not actually see a solution that directly helped.I once wanted to give up.And, in fact, I don’t know what the wrong keyword is, it’s frustrating.

Fortunately, I insisted on it again.
I went back to read the log again and felt that the reason for the failure might be related to conda.
With a try attitude:

manually installed anaconda3.
then, install AML again

This is a success for me, I don’t know why, just try to succeed.Maybe not for others, because I don’t know why.

In addition, after installing anaconda3, it seems that some of the original python packages disappear, such as xgboost,LightGBM,tensorflow, etc. I also don’t know why, just install them again.+_+