Dear Emilia,
thanks for the feedback we are aware of the issue but there's no easy fix since updating pyparsing will break other dependencies.
We are in the process of testing and providing a new set of VMs based on Ubuntu 14.04. You can find them at http://www.globalquakemodel.org/ova/ with the -u14.04 suffix. You will find images with OQ engine 1.4 and a recent master. Currently only 64bit is available, the 32bit version will be available soon, as soon we fix a segfault that sometime happens with matplotlib, but if you have a recent computer the 64bit version will work even better.
Some highlights:
New VMs are based on Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" (instead of the old 12.04). Ubuntu 14.04 is now (since the Engine release 1.4) officially supported by GEM and provides a fresh set of libraries and tools (i.e. numpy, scipy, matplotlib, h5py...)
LXDE desktop environment has replaced Unity. LXDE is much more lightweight compared to Unity, making more room (memory) for running computations and to work with the tools. LXDE has also a more Windows-like interface, thus less simple to be used by non-Linux users.
Smaller: the OVA file is 600MB smaller and the VM requires 2GB less when installed on the computer hardrive.
Cheers,
Daniele
On mobile. Please excuse my brevity.
A quick note: the new VMs based on Ubuntu 14.04 require VirtualBox 5 as they now use KVM interfaces to reduce the virtualization overhead.
Cheers, Emilia
Hi Daniele, thanks for your reply. I will download the new version and will let you know how.
Just one quick (I think) question: what is the difference between the 1.4-u14.04 ova and the master u14.04 ova ? which one should be downloaded?
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