conda error

Question

[houssienali]

(ngs1) bash-3.2$ conda install -c bioconda sra-tools

      Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
        Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
        Solving environment: failed with repodata from current_repodata.json, will retry with next repodata source.
        Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
        Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
        Solving environment: - 
        Found conflicts! Looking for incompatible packages.
        This can take several minutes.  Press CTRL-C to abort.
        Examining conflict for r-quantreg r-base64enc r-dichromat r-highr r-curl r-httpuv r-sparsem r-gtools r-r- r .....

and it's stay like that doesn't finish

Answer 1

[alex.zaccaron]

Try to install it in a new conda environment:

conda create -n sratools -c bioconda sra-tools
conda activate sratools

[cfos4698]

Also try using mamba instead. It's better at resolving issues, and faster overall.

https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba