[Magic CLI]: Unable to install packages with magic

[suahelen]

Issue description

I am running in to issues with magic after a fresh install on wsl2.
All command that would install the max package seem to fail. e.g.

magic install
magic shell
magic run mojo

all these commands result in something along the lines of:

⠤ validate cache [00:00:03] [━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━───] max-python (+1)
⠤ download & extract [00:00:03] [━━──────────────────] 21.10 MiB @ 2.34 MiB/s max-core
⠴ installing packages [00:00:03] [━━━━━━━━╾───────────] 5/12 numpy (+3) × failed to link ncurses-6.5-he02047a_1.conda
├─▶ failed to link 'share/terminfo/2/2621a'
├─▶ unexpected io operation while removing clobbered file
╰─▶ No such file or directory (os error 2)

if i remove the max package the magic commands run again, but obviously mojo is not available anymore.

Thanks for any ideas.

Steps to reproduce

install magic with:
curl -ssL https://magic.modular.com/3c7b6166-badc-49be-bb0f-0bd100dcb8b2 | bash
source /home/fam/.bashrc

init project:
magic init my-mojo-project --format mojoproject

run any of the commands mentioned before

Version Info

- magic --version => magic 0.3.0
- os = wsl2 (ubuntu 2204) on windows 
- mojoproject.toml:

[project]
channels = ["conda-forge", "https://conda.modular.com/max"]
description = "Add a short description here"
name = "my-mojo-project
platforms = ["linux-64"]
version = "0.1.0"

[tasks]

[dependencies]
max = ">=24.5.0,<25"

[zbowling]

This can happen if you have a case sensitive filesystem mounted on a case-insenstative system. The ncruses packages has two files in it's package with the same name but different cases. See prefix-dev/pixi#1362

[zbowling]

Also see: prefix-dev/pixi#234

[suahelen]

thanks for the heads-up.
Just for completenes sake and to wrap up, here how I worked around it.
That way you can keep project files on the windows file system if necessary.

select a package dir on the wsl file system:
export MAGIC_HOME=/home/yourusername/.magic_packages

create a project dir within that that package dir:
mkdir -p $MAGIC_HOME/projects/<your_project>

create a symlink from your project dir to the package dir:
ln -s $MAGIC_HOME/projects/<your_project>/mnt/c/projects/<your_project>/.magic

[liuzhishan]

Hi, how to fix this problem? I encountered the same problem in ubuntu using docker on mac. And I follow the above link, prefix-dev/pixi#1362 and didn't find a solution.

[suahelen]

In my case the problem occurred cause I was using a project folder on a windows pc from WSL.

To solve it, I directly cloned the repo of my code to the wsl-filesystem.

[liuzhishan]

Seems different from my problem, I was installing inside the docker container. And the error is about another package ncurses, not my code.

[ruben-arts]

@liuzhishan, it could also happen if the cache directory is on a different filesystem, with magic info you should be able to find the cache location that is used.

[liuzhishan]

@ruben-arts thanks, I will have a try with magic info.