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psconvert [ERROR]: Cannot execute Ghostscript (gs).
See original GitHub issueAfter a fresh install in a conda environment as per the installation instructions, I get the following error when trying to make my first figure:
psconvert [ERROR]: Cannot execute Ghostscript (gs).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
GMTCLibError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-6ebedab27258> in <module>
----> 1 fig.show()
~/.conda/envs/axial/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pygmt/figure.py in show(self, dpi, width, method)
269 img = None
270 elif method == "static":
--> 271 png = self._preview(
272 fmt="png", dpi=dpi, anti_alias=True, as_bytes=True, transparent=True
273 )
~/.conda/envs/axial/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pygmt/figure.py in _preview(self, fmt, dpi, as_bytes, **kwargs)
342 """
343 fname = os.path.join(self._preview_dir.name, "{}.{}".format(self._name, fmt))
--> 344 self.savefig(fname, dpi=dpi, **kwargs)
345 if as_bytes:
346 with open(fname, "rb") as image:
~/.conda/envs/axial/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pygmt/figure.py in savefig(self, fname, transparent, crop, anti_alias, show, **kwargs)
223 kwargs["W"] = "+k"
224
--> 225 self.psconvert(prefix=prefix, fmt=fmt, crop=crop, **kwargs)
226 if show:
227 launch_external_viewer(fname)
~/.conda/envs/axial/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pygmt/helpers/decorators.py in new_module(*args, **kwargs)
181 if alias in kwargs:
182 kwargs[arg] = kwargs.pop(alias)
--> 183 return module_func(*args, **kwargs)
184
185 new_module.aliases = aliases
~/.conda/envs/axial/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pygmt/helpers/decorators.py in new_module(*args, **kwargs)
291 )
292 # Execute the original function and return its output
--> 293 return module_func(*args, **kwargs)
294
295 return new_module
~/.conda/envs/axial/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pygmt/figure.py in psconvert(self, **kwargs)
163 kwargs["A"] = ""
164 with Session() as lib:
--> 165 lib.call_module("psconvert", build_arg_string(kwargs))
166
167 def savefig(
~/.conda/envs/axial/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pygmt/clib/session.py in call_module(self, module, args)
496 )
497 if status != 0:
--> 498 raise GMTCLibError(
499 "Module '{}' failed with status code {}:\n{}".format(
500 module, status, self._error_message
GMTCLibError: Module 'psconvert' failed with status code 78:
psconvert [ERROR]: Cannot execute Ghostscript (gs).
Here is the output from conda list:
(axial) jovyan@jupyter-tjcrone:~$ conda list
# packages in environment at /home/jovyan/.conda/envs/axial:
#
# Name Version Build Channel
_libgcc_mutex 0.1 conda_forge conda-forge
_openmp_mutex 4.5 0_gnu conda-forge
atk 2.32.0 haf93ef1_0 conda-forge
backcall 0.1.0 py_0 conda-forge
boost-cpp 1.70.0 h8e57a91_2 conda-forge
bzip2 1.0.8 h516909a_2 conda-forge
ca-certificates 2019.11.28 hecc5488_0 conda-forge
cairo 1.16.0 hfb77d84_1002 conda-forge
certifi 2019.11.28 py38_0 conda-forge
cfitsio 3.470 hb60a0a2_2 conda-forge
cftime 1.0.4.2 pypi_0 pypi
chrpath 0.16 h14c3975_1001 conda-forge
curl 7.65.3 hf8cf82a_0 conda-forge
dbus 1.13.6 he372182_0 conda-forge
dcw-gmt 1.1.4 1001 conda-forge
decorator 4.4.1 py_0 conda-forge
entrypoints 0.3 py38_1000 conda-forge
expat 2.2.9 he1b5a44_2 conda-forge
ffmpeg 4.2 h167e202_0 conda-forge
fftw 3.3.8 nompi_h7f3a6c3_1110 conda-forge
fontconfig 2.13.1 h86ecdb6_1001 conda-forge
freetype 2.10.0 he983fc9_1 conda-forge
freexl 1.0.5 h14c3975_1002 conda-forge
fribidi 1.0.5 h516909a_1002 conda-forge
gdal 3.0.4 py38hbb6b9fb_0 conda-forge
gdk-pixbuf 2.38.2 h3f25603_0 conda-forge
geos 3.8.0 he1b5a44_0 conda-forge
geotiff 1.5.1 h38872f0_8 conda-forge
gettext 0.19.8.1 hc5be6a0_1002 conda-forge
ghostscript 9.22 hf484d3e_1001 conda-forge
giflib 5.2.1 h516909a_1 conda-forge
glib 2.58.3 py38h6f030ca_1002 conda-forge
gmp 6.2.0 he1b5a44_1 conda-forge
gmt 6.0.0 hed9e446_1 conda-forge
gnuplot 5.2.7 h0fb2448_3 conda-forge
gnutls 3.6.5 hd3a4fd2_1002 conda-forge
gobject-introspection 1.58.2 py38h5503ade_1002 conda-forge
graphicsmagick 1.3.33 h40aeb3c_0 conda-forge
graphite2 1.3.13 hf484d3e_1000 conda-forge
gshhg-gmt 2.3.7 1002 conda-forge
gst-plugins-base 1.14.5 h0935bb2_1 conda-forge
gstreamer 1.14.5 h36ae1b5_1 conda-forge
gtk2 2.24.32 h586f36d_1 conda-forge
harfbuzz 2.4.0 h9f30f68_3 conda-forge
hdf4 4.2.13 hf30be14_1003 conda-forge
hdf5 1.10.5 nompi_h3c11f04_1104 conda-forge
icu 64.2 he1b5a44_1 conda-forge
ipykernel 5.1.4 py38h5ca1d4c_0 conda-forge
ipython 7.12.0 py38h5ca1d4c_0 conda-forge
ipython_genutils 0.2.0 py_1 conda-forge
jedi 0.16.0 py38_0 conda-forge
jpeg 9c h14c3975_1001 conda-forge
json-c 0.13.1 h14c3975_1001 conda-forge
jupyter_client 5.3.4 py38_1 conda-forge
jupyter_core 4.6.1 py38_0 conda-forge
kealib 1.4.10 h58c409b_1005 conda-forge
krb5 1.16.4 h2fd8d38_0 conda-forge
lame 3.100 h14c3975_1001 conda-forge
ld_impl_linux-64 2.33.1 h53a641e_8 conda-forge
libblas 3.8.0 14_openblas conda-forge
libcblas 3.8.0 14_openblas conda-forge
libclang 9.0.1 default_hde54327_0 conda-forge
libcurl 7.65.3 hda55be3_0 conda-forge
libdap4 3.20.4 hd3bb157_0 conda-forge
libedit 3.1.20170329 hf8c457e_1001 conda-forge
libffi 3.2.1 he1b5a44_1006 conda-forge
libgcc-ng 9.2.0 h24d8f2e_2 conda-forge
libgd 2.2.5 h307a58e_1007 conda-forge
libgdal 3.0.4 h20022a4_0 conda-forge
libgfortran-ng 7.3.0 hdf63c60_5 conda-forge
libgomp 9.2.0 h24d8f2e_2 conda-forge
libiconv 1.15 h516909a_1005 conda-forge
libkml 1.3.0 h4fcabce_1010 conda-forge
liblapack 3.8.0 14_openblas conda-forge
libllvm9 9.0.1 hc9558a2_0 conda-forge
libnetcdf 4.7.3 nompi_h9f9fd6a_101 conda-forge
libopenblas 0.3.7 h5ec1e0e_6 conda-forge
libpng 1.6.37 hed695b0_0 conda-forge
libpq 12.1 hd9ab2ff_0 conda-forge
libsodium 1.0.17 h516909a_0 conda-forge
libspatialite 4.3.0a ha48a99a_1034 conda-forge
libssh2 1.8.2 h22169c7_2 conda-forge
libstdcxx-ng 9.2.0 hdf63c60_2 conda-forge
libtiff 4.1.0 hc3755c2_3 conda-forge
libuuid 2.32.1 h14c3975_1000 conda-forge
libwebp 1.0.2 h56121f0_5 conda-forge
libxcb 1.13 h14c3975_1002 conda-forge
libxkbcommon 0.9.1 hebb1f50_0 conda-forge
libxml2 2.9.10 hee79883_0 conda-forge
lz4-c 1.8.3 he1b5a44_1001 conda-forge
ncurses 6.1 hf484d3e_1002 conda-forge
netcdf4 1.5.3 pypi_0 pypi
nettle 3.4.1 h1bed415_1002 conda-forge
nspr 4.24 he1b5a44_0 conda-forge
nss 3.47 he751ad9_0 conda-forge
numpy 1.18.1 py38h95a1406_0 conda-forge
openh264 1.8.0 hdbcaa40_1000 conda-forge
openjpeg 2.3.1 h981e76c_3 conda-forge
openssl 1.1.1d h516909a_0 conda-forge
packaging 20.1 py_0 conda-forge
pandas 1.0.0 py38hb3f55d8_0 conda-forge
pango 1.42.4 ha030887_1 conda-forge
parso 0.6.1 py_0 conda-forge
pcre 8.43 he1b5a44_0 conda-forge
pexpect 4.8.0 py38_0 conda-forge
pickleshare 0.7.5 py38_1000 conda-forge
pip 20.0.2 py38_1 conda-forge
pixman 0.38.0 h516909a_1003 conda-forge
poppler 0.67.0 h14e79db_8 conda-forge
poppler-data 0.4.9 1 conda-forge
postgresql 12.1 hc63931a_0 conda-forge
proj 6.3.0 hc80f0dc_0 conda-forge
prompt_toolkit 3.0.3 py_0 conda-forge
pthread-stubs 0.4 h14c3975_1001 conda-forge
ptyprocess 0.6.0 py_1001 conda-forge
pygments 2.5.2 py_0 conda-forge
pygmt 0.0.1a0+69.g320a728 pypi_0 pypi
pyparsing 2.4.6 py_0 conda-forge
python 3.8.1 h357f687_2 conda-forge
python-dateutil 2.8.1 py_0 conda-forge
pytz 2019.3 py_0 conda-forge
pyzmq 18.1.1 py38h1768529_0 conda-forge
qt 5.12.5 hd8c4c69_1 conda-forge
readline 8.0 hf8c457e_0 conda-forge
setuptools 45.1.0 py38_0 conda-forge
six 1.14.0 py38_0 conda-forge
sqlite 3.30.1 hcee41ef_0 conda-forge
tbb 2018.0.5 h2d50403_0 conda-forge
tiledb 1.7.0 hcde45ca_2 conda-forge
tk 8.6.10 hed695b0_0 conda-forge
tornado 6.0.3 py38h516909a_0 conda-forge
traitlets 4.3.3 py38_0 conda-forge
tzcode 2019a h516909a_1002 conda-forge
wcwidth 0.1.8 py_0 conda-forge
wheel 0.34.2 py38_0 conda-forge
x264 1!152.20180806 h14c3975_0 conda-forge
xarray 0.15.0 py_0 conda-forge
xerces-c 3.2.2 h8412b87_1004 conda-forge
xorg-kbproto 1.0.7 h14c3975_1002 conda-forge
xorg-libice 1.0.10 h516909a_0 conda-forge
xorg-libsm 1.2.3 h84519dc_1000 conda-forge
xorg-libx11 1.6.9 h516909a_0 conda-forge
xorg-libxau 1.0.9 h14c3975_0 conda-forge
xorg-libxdmcp 1.1.3 h516909a_0 conda-forge
xorg-libxext 1.3.4 h516909a_0 conda-forge
xorg-libxrender 0.9.10 h516909a_1002 conda-forge
xorg-libxt 1.2.0 h516909a_0 conda-forge
xorg-renderproto 0.11.1 h14c3975_1002 conda-forge
xorg-xextproto 7.3.0 h14c3975_1002 conda-forge
xorg-xproto 7.0.31 h14c3975_1007 conda-forge
xz 5.2.4 h14c3975_1001 conda-forge
zeromq 4.3.2 he1b5a44_2 conda-forge
zlib 1.2.11 h516909a_1006 conda-forge
zstd 1.4.4 h3b9ef0a_1 conda-forge
Any thoughts on what might be going on? Thanks!
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