Problem installing NWB Guide on Linux remote server

[emosb]

Describe the issue

When trying to install python dependencies on our remote server, we ran into a disk quota error initially (as our home location on the remote server allows only 1GB of memory).

Steps to Reproduce

To create the environment in another location with more memory, we added a --prefix command (see command line prompt below):

conda create --file ./environments/environment-Linux.yml --prefix /projects/LEIFER/Emily/nwb-guide

but this generated the following error:

CondaValueError: could not parse 'name: nwb-guide' in: ./environments/environment-Linux.yml

Operating System

Linux

GUIDE Version

Linux branch

Code of Conduct

Yes

Did you confirm this issue was not already reported?

Yes

[CodyCBakerPhD]

Thanks @emosb

For context, we discovered this during a joint meeting for the Leifer project

I think the solution would be to remove the hardcoded naming in our environment files, since that seems to be the incompatibility. The dev install instructions would need to be adjusted to call conda create --name instead of conda env create (which does not support --name or --prefix) with extra instructions for using --prefix instead of --name (which are not jointly compatible)