Hello Nina,
Not an expert here, but, I did have great success installing NEST in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). This is a full LINUX front-end environment in windows 10 and higher. Microsoft re implemented the LINUX API with windows native tooling allow support and installation of most standard Linux tools in windows. You can get WSL and a linux distro via the Windows Store.
Go to the store, type in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and you have a running linux system in windows where you can then install NEST using the normal approaches.
This might be good approach if other ways fail. It is not officially supported but I have been doing NEST development this way for years and only found small challenges easy to solve.
Sincerely,
Wouter
On 15-Oct-21 12:25, Nina Doorn wrote:
Dear experts,
I have a question about using nest on docker/vscode on my windows PC. I hope this is the right place to ask since I couldn't answer my question using the troubleshooting session.
I am using docker to use pyNEST on my windows computer. I have successfully installed NEST using the instructions mentioned here for installing on docker: https://nest-simulator.readthedocs.io/en/v2.20.1/installation/index.html https://nest-simulator.readthedocs.io/en/v2.20.1/installation/index.html. If I am in the container, I have python version 3.8.10. If I run python and then try to "import nest" it says there is no module named nest. Importing other python packages works perfectly in this way. But indeed, when I look at all the installed packages using pip list, there is no package called "nest". There is, however "nest-desktop 3.0.3" there. So I guess nest is not installed. However, I also don't know how to install it. If I use pip install nest, another package called nest is installed that is not the nest simulator (according to: #754 https://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/issues/754).
Also, I don't know whether this problem is related or totally unrelated but it might give some insight: when I am in VScode in the nestsim/nest container and I click on python: select interpreter, nothing happens, I cannot select a python interpreter/no window opens. So maybe there is something wrong with the python installations or the used path?
I hope the problem is clear. I've been trying different things for days so I would greatly appreciate any help you can offer me!
Thanks in advance and have a nice day!
Kind regards,
Nina Doorn
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