[SOLVED] installing Brain Scaffold Builder with broken rtree dependency

installing Brain Scaffold Builder with broken rtree dependency

I have recently installed NEST on my MAC. I have to install the Brain Scaffold Builder. I followed the instructions and wrote bsb==3.6.0b6 and I received the following error message

Using cached bsb-3.6.0b6-py3-none-any.whl (189 kB)
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement rtree-linux==0.9.4 (from bsb)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for rtree-linux==0.9.4

Could you please help me to fix it?

Solution

The rtree package did not come packaged with wheels before version 0.9.6 (see PR#163) and the BSB instead published it's own version of the wheels under the name rtree-linux as it only contained Linux wheels and later Windows wheels. Mac wheels had never been available up until PR#163 a month ago or so.

You can resolve this issue by either cloning the repository and adapting setup.py to install rtree>=0.9.7 or by asking the maintainer (disclaimer: me) to do so; I have done so and you should be able to install the BSB with version 3.6.1 (pip install bsb) as of now on Mac without special efforts and it will use the rtree==0.9.7 Mac wheels.