Thanks, this worked! I also learned I need to be more thorough combing through threads.
Another small note - I had an error that was thrown both when I used environments made with Miniconda3 or python2.7. Specifically, running the csparc2star.py hit trouble at metadata.py, line 401
ptdf = util.dataframe_from_records_mapped(pt, {**general, **micrograph})
This was alleviated by using Miniconda2 to make an environment that I used during installation and currently use when running pyem python packages. Everything was done as described for Miniconda3 but with Miniconda2-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh instead. This could be anecdotal but worth a mention and possibly worth a try for people getting that error.