{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/416","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/416/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/416/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/416/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/416","id":102167906,"number":416,"title":"Error \"could not open ... conda-env ... for writing (seek)\" when installing packages.","user":{"login":"campagnola","id":940580,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/940580?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/campagnola","html_url":"https://github.com/campagnola","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/campagnola/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/campagnola/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/campagnola/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/campagnola/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/campagnola/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/campagnola/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/campagnola/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/campagnola/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/campagnola/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":5,"created_at":"2015-08-20T15:36:50Z","updated_at":"2016-02-01T09:03:11Z","closed_at":null,"body":"My fresh conda install (on ubuntu 14.04) appears to be unable to install packages:\r\n\r\n```\r\nanaconda$ bin/conda install ipython-notebook\r\nFetching package metadata: ....\r\nSolving package specifications: .\r\n. . .\r\nFetching packages ...\r\nError: Could not open u'/home/luke/anaconda/pkgs/conda-env-2.4.2-py27_0.tar.bz2.part' for writing (seek).\r\n```\r\n\r\nThere is an explanation of this problem and a workaround in the discussion for #71: I have requests v2.2 installed elsewhere in my system, but conda requires v2.7. I am unable to update the package from conda:\r\n\r\n```\r\nanaconda$ bin/conda update requests\r\nFetching package metadata: ....\r\n# All requested packages already installed.\r\n# packages in environment at /home/luke/anaconda:\r\n#\r\nrequests                  2.7.0                    py27_0\r\n```\r\n\r\nSo it seems that conda should be doing a better job of ensuring that it uses its own packages in preference to the older system packages?\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/comments/177862786","html_url":"https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/416#issuecomment-177862786","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/416","id":177862786,"user":{"login":"johannct","id":586081,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/586081?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/johannct","html_url":"https://github.com/johannct","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johannct/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johannct/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johannct/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johannct/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johannct/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johannct/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johannct/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johannct/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johannct/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-02-01T09:03:10Z","updated_at":"2016-02-01T09:03:10Z","body":"same problem here : I needed to remove the /usr/lib/... line in the .local easy-install.pth file."}}