Unable to install Kats

[bruceesmith]

Environment is

• Ubuntu 23.10
• Python 3.11.6
• virtual environment in /tmp/kats/
• followed the 2-line instructions in PyPI

Issue: installation failed during pystan metadata preparation

Logfile attached "kats-installation.log"

[nistrup]

As mentioned here: #324 I fixed this by rolling back to Python 3.7, seems like never versions are not supported.

# Install Python 3.7 and 3.7 Dev
sudo apt update                              
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt-get install python3.7
sudo apt-get install python3.7-dev

# Create virtual environment
python3.7 -m venv venv37
source venv37/bin/activate

# Pip install packages in the following order
pip install numpy
pip install pandas
pip install convertdate
pip install lunarcalendar
pip install holidays==0.23
pip install tqdm
pip install pystan==2.19.1.1
pip install fbprophet==0.7.1
pip install kats
pip install Packaging==21.3