troubles with mayavi install - problem solved

[Williams, Darren]

Hi Everyone. 

I just wanted to close out this conversation by reporting that 

the advice given by Chris Baker and others was what solved the problem

of not being able to install mayavi because of inconsistencies between 

various packages and versions. 

The solution, which others may find valuable to know, was to 

do a clean install of miniconda on a Windows 10 machine, and then 

build everything using conda-forge by first typing 

conda config --add channels conda-forge

followed by

conda config --set channel_priority strict

followed by

conda install python mayavi

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I am now happily running Mayavi 4.7.2 and Python 3.8.10

and am receiving no errors.

This simple solution may help others with similar problems. 

Many thanks!

Darren Williams