Installing astronify at the Rubin Science Platform in `data.lsst.cloud`

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I'm trying to install astronify at the Rubin Science Platform (RSP) in data.lsst.cloud to create a short Jupyter Notebook demonstration on how to use astronify with LSST-like data.

At first, pip install --user astronify would run into problems with portaudio (the details are in this public forum question: https://community.lsst.org/t/installing-astronify-via-homebrew-on-rsp-notebooks/8066). A colleague from Rubin suggested doing a minimal installation of pyo to exclude portaudio since portaudio is used when you want to play audio on the same computer that you’re running the code on, but on the RSP the code runs in a data center somewhere, so instead you need to use IPython to interface with the browser to play the audio. This solution worked fine as of November of 2023, but now the following error message appears when trying to import astronify in a notebook:

ImportError: libsndfile.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

A colleague from Rubin suggested that astronify might be out of date with respect to the astropy built into rubin-env, which has astropy 6.0.0..