When I built PyCall, I found that miniforge can’t be installed on the path with non-ascii chararcters which is my username. So I manually installed the miniforge and set the env. But in this case, julia can’t manage python and I have to install packages manually. Is there any way to avoid this?

when I used CondaPkg to install packages, it showed the critical libmamba and failed to extract and open. here the part of error report: critical libmamba Failed to open 'C:\Users\%username%\.julia\scratchspaces\0b3b1443-0f03-428d-bdfb-f27f9c1191ea\root\pkgs\vc14_runtime-14.40.338'

I thought the problem maybe same as before. non-ascii username may result this.

[image] lvyuemeng: I found that miniforge can’t be installed on the path with non-ascii chararcters which is my username. Don’t use a username with non-ascii characters. Alternatively, it might help to set the variable JULIA_DEPOT_PATH to a path without non-ascii characters. export JULIA_DEP…

In windows, there doesn’t seem to be a clean way to change username. If it has, please tell me! So right now I can only choose the latter one.

[image] lvyuemeng: In windows, there doesn’t seem to be a clean way to change username. Not exactly true. How it can be done is explained here: [image] How To Change User Name Windows 10 If you're using Windows 10, you may want to change your user name for various reasons. Maybe y…

It just change the info about user(binding to microsoft), but it can’t change the username path etc.

[image] How to Change the User Profile Folder Name in Windows 11 If you're stuck with a crummy user profile folder name on Windows 11, there are ways to change it to your liking. Are you using Windows 10 or Windows 11?

Windows11. I followed the steps, it does work but flawed. I took a while to restore things like onedrive. There’s still other things aren’t mentioned, for example terminal fonts missing and some path problem.(I previously installed fonts for terminal and after that it’s missing)

I install PythonCall now, and it works fine. If I had to choose, which one is better? (based on gaddle , PythonCall is better), but it doesn’t have any interface which means all methods should be memorized.

Build PyCall with error in installing miniconda

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gdalle August 30, 2024, 6:33am 2

Not a solution to your exact problem but have you tried PythonCall.jl instead? It’s a more modern take on PyCall.jl which sometimes simplifies installation

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