Installing the github version of the package with Anaconda

Question

I have Sympy installed with Anaconda, my version (Sympy) is 0.7.6.

I want to use the Symbian git version. Do you know how I can tell Anaconda to replace 2 versions?

I tried using the clone git command, but the Sympy folder from git and Anaconda does not look the same, so I cannot replace it with another.

git clone git://github.com/sympy/sympy.git 

Is there a command like: "conda update-git sympy"?

I found this answer, but I did not understand how to do it.

Is it possible to make "conda build" from the github branch?

UPDATE : I used the following command and worked

 python setup.py develop 

in my simplex directory.

Thanks @asmeurer

Answer 1

my previous answer was based on long experience this is the right process (which worked for me based on the latest anaconda on a windows machine)

I updated meta.yaml with only the following changes: a change to get the source from git including mpmath during the build and testing process, removing some sympy libraries that seemed to be removed from the latest version

I have all the files in the following form https://gist.github.com/srgrn/622cf61b03b7321503cc

hope this helps

Answer 2

you can try the following:

• download conda recipes ( https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes )
• update meta.yaml to get the source from github as described in the question you contacted.
• run conda build.