Unable to upgrade cloned environment at 3.2

SFM_TravisBott

I upgraded to 3.2 in order to access the upgrade arcgis module. However I can't seem to upgrade my previous environment. Is it necessary to create a new clone?

> "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\Scripts\conda-proup.exe" --prefix "C:\Users\tbott\AppData\Local\ESRI\conda\envs\arcgispro-py3-clone" --force  --backup "C:\Users\tbott\AppData\Local\ESRI\conda\envs\arcgispro-py3-clone.tar.bz2"


Collecting packages...
Upgrading environment at 'C:\\Users\\tbott\\AppData\\Local\\ESRI\\conda\\envs\\arcgispro-py3-clone' with backup at C:\Users\tbott\AppData\Local\ESRI\conda\envs\arcgispro-py3-clone.tar.bz2
Detected packages added to environment:
  conda: tabulate geopandas
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "conda_proup\core.py", line 580, in backup
  File "conda_pack\core.py", line 561, in pack
  File "conda_pack\core.py", line 396, in pack
  File "conda_pack\core.py", line 1095, in add
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Users\\tbott\\AppData\\Local\\ESRI\\conda\\envs\\arcgispro-py3-clone\\Scripts/normalizer.exe'
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "conda_proup\cli.py", line 64, in main
  File "conda_proup\core.py", line 1082, in upgrade
  File "conda_proup\core.py", line 997, in upgrade
  File "conda_proup\core.py", line 583, in backup
Exception: Unable to backup original environment, stopping upgrade.
Backing up environment to C:\Users\tbott\AppData\Local\ESRI\conda\envs\arcgispro-py3-clone.tar.bz2
Collecting packages...
Packing environment at 'C:\\Users\\tbott\\AppData\\Local\\ESRI\\conda\\envs\\arcgispro-py3-clone' to 'C:\\Users\\tbott\\AppData\\Local\\ESRI\\conda\\envs\\arcgispro-py3-clone.tar.bz2

 

I'm getting a 'Permission denied.' I don't have admin rights on my machine but this should be an issue. I was able to clone the environment previously and manipulate packages as necessary. 

Attempting to do so at the command line doesn't seem to like the syntax of the provided code. 

Brian_Wilson

Well, it's saying it cannot write this file, so starting there,

C:\\Users\\tbott\\AppData\\Local\\ESRI\\conda\\envs\\arcgispro-py3-clone.tar.bz2

The first thing I would do is make sure there is not already a file there by that name and if there is, delete it. If you can't delete it, try to rename it. Make sure you can write into that folder too (e.g. create a doc and delete it)

The proup tool does a tar backup of an existing env, gets a list of packages installed in it, nukes the existing env and then builds a new one with the same name and adds your packages into it.

I am not comfortable letting Esri's closed source tool nuke environments that I built. It's slow, and I can't see what it's doing (except when it makes a mistake and crashes.) (Too bad they took away the open source version.) (Is there a "prodown" tool to run if the proup tool leaves you with no working env??)

My thought is you can very easily build a new clean environment, test it, and if it works, and you need space, then nuke the old one once you are sure the new one works and you don't need the old one any more.

conda create -c esri -c forge -n pro32 python=3.9 arcpy arcgis
conda activate pro32

Add more tools, for example

conda install geopandas

Of course if there are other packages you installed yourself such as geopandas so you'd need to do that. I keep conda environments with each of the projects I use them with and document what packages I need to add.