The conda-forge package for cctbx is now available. There are 2 packages, "cctbx-base" includes the base code and "cctbx" which includes "cctbx-base" and adds "wxPython", "PySide2", and "ipython". The commands for installing cctbx into your conda environment are

or

If you want to use Jupyter Lab, you can now easily do this with

The existing documentation will be updated to reflect the easier installation procedure with conda.

After installing the conda package, you can also run some of the tests (in an empty directory) with

I do know of a few issues that I want to fix in upcoming releases, but please submit issues to https://github.com/cctbx/cctbx_project with steps to reproduce the error.