A Different Install Issue

[rswiftCADHCS]

Hey @nickrsan Glad I stumbled on this. I work with Open Data and GIS data for the California Department of Health Care Services. I'm working to make metadata more of a "thing" for us and our data sets. Especially since we work with them in ArcGIS and they're also harvested out to CKAN open data sites.

I'm trying to run the install and because of our security, I can't install with pip (SSL Error). So I downloaded and trying to install locally. It seems like it's moving along and then i get a RuntimeError: The Product LIcense has not been initialized. Below is the full "transaction". I'll keep trying but let me know if you or anyone else has thoughts. Thanks!

`(arcgispro-py3) C:\Users\rswift\Documents\ArcGIS\arcpy_metadata-master> python setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Users\rswift\Documents\ArcGIS\arcpy_metadata-master\setup.py", line 3, in from arcpy_metadata import version

File "C:\Users\rswift\Documents\ArcGIS\arcpy_metadata-master\arcpy_metadata_init_.py", line 4, in from arcpy_metadata.metadata_editor import MetadataEditor

File "C:\Users\rswift\Documents\ArcGIS\arcpy_metadata-master\arcpy_metadata\metadata_editor.py", line 2, in import arcpy

File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy_init_.py", line 77, in from arcpy.geoprocessing import gp

File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\geoprocessing_init_.py", line 14, in from ._base import *

File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\geoprocessing_base.py", line 14, in import arcgisscripting

File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\arcgisscripting_init_.py", line 131, in from ._arcgisscripting import *

RuntimeError: The Product License has not been initialized.`

[nickrsan]

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for sharing your stack trace - there are two issues I'm seeing:

1. What license type are you running - standalone, license server, or named user through AGOL? For named users through AGOL, I've seen that error when ArcGIS Pro is no longer logged in via the GUI - the application can be closed, but needs to be logged in. If you have anything organizationally that closes the session out on application close, or something, then you may have some issues.
2. But that's somewhat moot in this case, because even if you got past that problem, you'd run into the issue of arcpy_metadata not being compatible with ArcGIS Pro - it doesn't have the geoprocessing tools we used to work around the problem of accessing metadata through Python

The good news though is that ArcGIS Pro now has native access to metadata in Python through Esri's arcpy.metadata, which you can read more about here: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/arcpy/metadata/metadata-class.htm - I think it was introduced long enough ago that most organizations should have access. It was sometime after ArcGIS Pro 2.0 though, but I think 2.5 or earlier, so it's been out for a little while

I hope that helps - please let me know if you need anything else.