Why is MSAL missing from the ArcPro package manager at 3.3?

FredSpataro

Hi All,

We have a toolbox of specialized scripts that move data around various enterprise systems. This worked fine with ArcMap and ArcPro up thru 3.1.

Our latest installs of Pro are 3.3.2 (enterprise level rollout) and the toolbox is failing b/c the package isn't installed and users aren't able to use the UI package manager to install it. Many of the other microsoft and auth packages are found: azure-storage, azure-core, google-auth etc... So why is MSAL not there?

Thanks

FredSpataro

Update: It's possible we manually installed at the command line in the older 3.1 and I've just forgotten about it. It seems to have successfully installed running: conda install microsoft::msal at the command line ... but why make me work so hard 🙂 ... what use is a package manager UI that can't install all the packages...

Luke_Pinner

I'm using 3.3.0 and MSAL is available to install into my cloned env from the package manager UI.

FredSpataro

Thanks Luke! That's odd, have you ever installed it before? Here's my package manager:

Luke_Pinner

And you don't need to install from the microsoft channel, it's in main (defaults):

> conda config --show channels
channels:
- esri
- defaults
> conda search msal
Loading channels: done
# Name Version Build Channel
msal 1.22.0 py310haa95532_0 pkgs/main
msal 1.22.0 py311haa95532_0 pkgs/main
msal 1.22.0 py312haa95532_0 pkgs/main
msal 1.22.0 py38haa95532_0 pkgs/main
msal 1.22.0 py39haa95532_0 pkgs/main
msal 1.25.0 py310haa95532_0 pkgs/main
msal 1.25.0 py311haa95532_0 pkgs/main
msal 1.25.0 py312haa95532_0 pkgs/main
msal 1.25.0 py313haa95532_0 pkgs/main
msal 1.25.0 py38haa95532_0 pkgs/main
msal 1.25.0 py39haa95532_0 pkgs/main

Luke_Pinner

Something is not right with your screenshot - you have nowhere near as many packages available (~10K vs 28K) as I do. What does conda config --show channels output?

FredSpataro

@Luke_Pinner thanks for digging deeper on this!

What i'm seeing is not isolated to my machine... a couple of machines in my office and at least one at a client location as well but all are showing that 10K range of packages.

FredSpataro

@Luke_Pinner had one of my local office users run both config and search commands: both match your output... so it finds msal at the cmd search but can't find it in the UI search ...

Had my client user run the conda install cmd and it seems successful => msal folder is now in the pkgs folder but his UI doesn't show msal as installed or addable ... they using a citrix env so i'm sure that's somehow causing issues but they are really the ones i need to get working.

idk ... sort of the usual arcgis voodoo

DanPatterson

and conda install, not the package manager

... sort of retired...

FredSpataro

Adding another related: https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/missing-soap-packages-after-upgrading-to-3-1-1/m-p/12...

Seems like the same 'package manager acting weird and different for each user' kind of issue, no explanation about why but workaround is to install directly from the conda command line...