pygmt import error on google colaboratory about try-gmt

[andrebelem]

I managed to use pygmt in the colab "installing GMT6 fresh".
Take a look at https://github.com/andrebelem/pythonverse/blob/main/PyGMT_on_COLAB.ipynb and feel free to incorporate it in the try-gmt.

[seisman]

I also noticed it yesterday. It's weird that the commands in the notebook install "python 3.9" but the python version in the error message says it's python3.6.

[weiji14]

I also noticed it yesterday. It's weird that the commands in the notebook install "python 3.9" but the python version in the error message says it's python3.6.

After doing some reading (e.g. https://towardsdatascience.com/conda-google-colab-75f7c867a522), it seems that we need to pin conda's Python version to be the same as that on Google Collaboratory (currently Python 3.7) instead of the Miniconda default (Python 3.9). However, I tried getting a Python 3.7 installer from https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/, and it still produces a DistributionNotFound error (as Liam and a forum user at https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/installing-pygmt-on-google-colab/898/12 reported). So needs a bit more work somehow.