Does the astro-datalab package work on Windows?

Question

I am trying to install astro-datalabs on my Windows machine and it does not want to install because pycurl is not supported on Windows. Is there a work around to this?

Answer 1

Hi, thank you for reaching out. The 'datalab' command line client is unfortunately not officially supported on Windows boxes. Short of building the pycurl dependency from source under Windows, I don't think there's is a supported binary version of it out there.

Internally, we will check if pycurl could be made an optional dependency in 'datalab' (with reduced functionality as a result).

Best,
Robert

Answer 2

If you haven't done so already I'd suggest conda in windows possibly using the conda-forge channel.