Package installation error using Bioconda

Question

[A_heath]

Hi all,

I am trying to install the tool antismash (1) which is available with Bioconda.

When I type the following command:

conda create -n antismash antismash

An error occur at Solving environment, where bioconda seems to stop abruptly after a while but without a proper error message:

I tried to config the channels using:

conda config --remove channels conda-forge
conda config --add channels conda-forge
conda config --add channels defaults
conda config --add channels bioconda
conda config --set channel_priority strict

but nothing seems to work..

Could you please provide any help on this?

Thank you very much!

[manaswwm]

have you tried using mamba within conda to install packages, it is relatively faster and easier to identify trouble causing dependencies

[Dunois]

Did you try specifying the channel explicitly like so conda create -n antismash -c bioconda antismash?

If not, it's worth trying out mamba ( conda install -c conda-forge mamba ; just install it in the base environment), and attempting to create the environment like so: mamba create -n antismash -c bioconda antismash .

[A_heath]

Thank you both very much for your help. I didn't think about using mamba so I will keep this in mind next time, thanks. For antismash, I managed to install it using Docker and it worked great!