Has anyone run into this issue when trying to run

flow.visualize()

? I installed the viz package with

pip install prefect[viz]

but am still getting this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "insurance_export.py", line 184, in <module>
    flow.visualize()
  File "/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/envs/python38_prefect/lib/python3.8/site-packages/prefect/core/flow.py", line 1406, in visualize
    graph.render(tmp.name, view=True)
  File "/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/envs/python38_prefect/lib/python3.8/site-packages/graphviz/files.py", line 216, in render
    self._view(rendered, self._format, quiet_view)
  File "/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/envs/python38_prefect/lib/python3.8/site-packages/graphviz/files.py", line 262, in _view
    view_method(filepath, quiet)
  File "/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/envs/python38_prefect/lib/python3.8/site-packages/graphviz/backend.py", line 323, in view_unixoid
    popen_func(cmd)
  File "/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/envs/python38_prefect/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 854, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/envs/python38_prefect/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1702, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'xdg-open'

try installing it

sudo apt-get --reinstall xdg-utils

that doesnt seem to work @Avi A 😞

You may need to contact AWS support about the best way to install xdg-utils on Amazon Linux, from a quick search it looks like you’d need to add external repos.

ok thanks. appreciate it

It’s also feasible it’s in the EPEL repo that they provide access to