Cannot run install-support.ipynb

[yw5aj]

Hi Fernando,

First of all, thank you so much for the great work!

I was trying to run the install-support.ipynb, but got this error:

fatal: destination path 'X:\WinPython3\settings\.ipython\profile_default\static\custom' already exists and is not an empty directory.

Basically because 1) I need to use IPython Notebook to run the .ipynb file, and 2) whenever I start the ipython notebook, the folder static\custom got created and is non-empty.

Could you please help?

Thanks!

Shawn

[fperez]

Sorry, this wasn't really set up for "production" use, so it's a bit manual and clunky. Perhaps I shouldn't even have tried to automate the setup...

The easiest solution is:

1. temporarily rename your static/custom directory to say static/custom-tmp
2. run the code above to completion.
3. move back the contents of your custom-tmp directory into the newly created custom directory.
4. restart IPython notebook

Horribly ugly, but it will do the trick for now.

In the future, we'll work on having a clean setup/installation of the slideshow machinery, but this is what we can do right at this time...