Troubleshooting

The automated install commands fail

These failures are often due to unstable internet connections causing the download of the pseudopotential archive from the web to fail. In this case, it is possible to download an .aiida_pseudo archive of the established family on a machine with a stable internet connection, transfer it to the machine where the pseudopotentials need to be installed and install directly from the archive. To download the archive, use the --download-only option:

$ aiida-pseudo install sssp --download-only
Report: downloading patch versions information...  [OK]
Report: downloading selected pseudopotentials archive...  [OK]
Report: downloading selected pseudopotentials metadata...  [OK]
Success: Pseudopotential archive written to: SSSP_1.1_PBE_efficiency.aiida_pseudo

The downloaded archive can be installed through the --from-download option of the corresponding install command:

$ aiida-pseudo install sssp --from-download SSSP_1.1_PBE_efficiency.aiida_pseudo
Report: unpacking archive and parsing pseudos...  [OK]
Success: installed `SSSP/1.1/PBE/efficiency` containing 85 pseudopotentials.