BUSCO installation with conda

Question

[Shakunthala Natarajan]

I am trying to install BUSCO using Conda. I first created a conda environment in the folder where I have enough disk space as follows:

conda create -p /vol/bigdata/BUSCO
conda activate /vol/bigdata/BUSCO

Then I tried to install BUSCO into the BUSCO environment using:

conda install -p /vol/bigdata/BUSCO -c conda-forge -c bioconda busco=5.4.2

Although things seem to work fine till some time, suddenly conda error shows up as:

Invalid archive error. Not much disk space left in /home/Ubuntu

So instead of installing the packages in the BUSCO environment, conda seems to do it in my home folder where there is very little disk space.

How to make conda install the BUSCO packages in the environment I created?

Can someone please help me with this?

Thank you!

Answer 1

[Michael]

Conda may still cache downloaded tar.gz files and package contents in your home. Check out conda config --show pkgs_dirs and then check the contents. Either run conda clean -fa to clean up after each install or configure the package directory as described here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57416542/change-conda-default-pkgs-dirs-and-envs-dirs