Drag and drop reference flows and impact categories

[coconutcheese]

I am a new user of the Activity Browser and I encountered a problem while setting up a test LCA calculation. I followed the YouTube tutorial and tried to replicate the method, but I am unable to drag and drop any activity or impact categories into my LCA Calculation Setup. Even if I select the required activities, on dropping them into the calculation setup, nothing gets "pasted". Is there anything that I am missing?

[marc-vdm]

Hey, happy to hear you've chosen to use AB!

Could you make a screenshot of the AB where both the calculation setup and the processes/impact categories are visible?
And in addition to this, could you share the output of your terminal? That is the black screen with white text. There should be some standard info there when AB starts, but I'm hoping also some error messages that will help us fix your problem.

[coconutcheese]

So I followed all the steps in the installation guide; but now that I think about it, I am not too sure that I updated it. I just figured that it would install the latest version while downloading it. I will try it now and let you know.

It says 'Application Version: 0.0.0'

[marc-vdm]

I just figured that it would install the latest version while downloading it

That should happen though 😅.

Something has gone wrong during installation I'm guessing.
Could you (after updating) run conda list in the terminal and copy-paste the results?

[coconutcheese]

Yes, I just updated it; here you go:

Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
activity-browser          2.6.9              pyhd8ed1ab_1    conda-forge
anyio                     4.0.0                    pypi_0    pypi
appdirs                   1.4.4              pyh9f0ad1d_0    conda-forge
appnope                   0.1.3                    pypi_0    pypi
argon2-cffi               23.1.0                   pypi_0    pypi
argon2-cffi-bindings      21.2.0                   pypi_0    pypi
arrow                     1.3.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
asteval                   0.9.31             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
asttokens                 2.4.0                    pypi_0    pypi
astunparse                1.6.3              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
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attrs                     23.1.0                   pypi_0    pypi
babel                     2.13.0                   pypi_0    pypi
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Also, there was a message that popped up while I was updating it right now:

 conda update activity-browser
Retrieving notices: ...working... done
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: - 
The environment is inconsistent, please check the package plan carefully
The following packages are causing the inconsistency:

  - conda-forge/noarch::bw2data==3.6.6=pyhd8ed1ab_0
  - conda-forge/noarch::bw_migrations==0.2=pyhd8ed1ab_0
  - conda-forge/noarch::brightway2==2.4.3=pyhd8ed1ab_0
  - conda-forge/noarch::asteval==0.9.31=pyhd8ed1ab_0
  - conda-forge/noarch::bw2parameters==1.1.0=pyhd8ed1ab_0
  - conda-forge/noarch::presamples==0.2.7=pyhd8ed1ab_1
  - conda-forge/noarch::eidl==2.0.1=pyhd8ed1ab_0
  - conda-forge/noarch::bw2io==0.8.8=pyhd8ed1ab_1
  - conda-forge/noarch::activity-browser==2.6.9=pyhd8ed1ab_1
  - conda-forge/noarch::bw2analyzer==0.10=pyhd8ed1ab_0
done

[marc-vdm]

Alright thanks a lot! I think this may help:

I would suggest completely re-installing the environment. This will keep all your projects and data in them, but will re-install activity browser.

You can do that with the following commands:
conda deactivate (so that it says base instead of ab at the start of the line you're writing on)
conda create -n ab -c conda-forge activity-browser

This will warn you that you are overwriting the environment, just confirm and wait.

Please let me know once that finishes if it worked, and if it didn't, please give me the output of conda list again!

[coconutcheese]

Okay I will try that, thank you! Just to make sure, it will also keep my ecoinvent apos database intact, right?

And should I also update to python 3.11? Or will the new environment just have 3.11 by default?

[marc-vdm]

Just to make sure, it will also keep my ecoinvent apos database intact, right?

Yes, all your databases and projects remain where they are, you can access them again in the new version of AB

And should I also update to python 3.11? Or will the new environment just have 3.11 by default?

No need for that, Conda will figure out all the correct versions of everything so that they work together.
AB currently only supports python 3.8 and 3.9, but we will soon provide support for 3.11 and 3.12.
Just following the commands above should hopefully do the trick!

[coconutcheese]

It worked! It took around 10 hours to be installed though. I am not sure why; maybe my laptop isn't powerful enough. Thank you so much for your help!

[marc-vdm]

Oh dear, it should not have taken 10 hours for sure! We will see how we can improve this for the future, but I am happy this is resolved for you for now.

For you: If you have more questions on using activity browser, feel free to open a new discussion here. If you think AB is broken (doing something it's not supposed to or not doing something it is supposed to) or if you have ideas on how to improve AB, please open an issue on the issues page instead :)