halotools.test_installation() seems to be broken in some environments
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A new halotools user recently reported that calling the `test_installation` function raises an exception:
```unrecognized arguments: remote_data=None```
It's possible that the API of pytest has changed in some versions such that the `test_installation` function needs to be updated. I was able to successfully call this function locally on my own machine (python 3.12, macos 15.2, halotools v0.9.2, pytest v8.3.2), but I haven't tried to pin down what environments lead to this failure. In case anyone else finds this issue, it would be helpful to have a report of this failure in the comments of this issue that includes some info on the environment.
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