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ruben-arts opened this issue Jan 29, 2025 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #3572
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Print a help when a package was not found #3026

ruben-arts opened this issue Jan 29, 2025 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #3572
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cli Issue related to CLI good first issue Good for newcomers UX Related to the User Experience of pixi

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Problem description

Issue

When running pixi global install bla or pixi add bla you'll get an error message that is not really helping the user going forward.

> pixi add bla
Error: 
  × failed to solve the conda requirements of 'default' 'win-64'
  ╰─▶ Cannot solve the request because of: No candidates were found for bla *.

Solution

What would be much better is to execute a search and print similar packages and add a help message with options to figure out what to do next.

For example:

> pixi add bla
 ×  No candidates were found for bla * for 'win-64'.

  Did you mean one of these?
    - blaz (1.2.3)
    - bla-tools (0.8.1)
    - bla-lib (2.1.0)

  Tip: Run `pixi search bla` to explore available packages.

We have a similarity implementation in our TomlError:

pixi/crates/pixi_manifest/src/error.rs

Line 304 in bb6cd82

TomlError::TomlError(toml_span::Error { kind, .. }) => match kind {
which could be reused as the algoritm for this implementation.
@ruben-arts ruben-arts added good first issue Good for newcomers cli Issue related to CLI UX Related to the User Experience of pixi labels Jan 29, 2025
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fix: resolve dependency matching bug in add command aryan0931/pixi
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