Can anyone help me install ambertool for Mac M1 silicon?

Question

[Ankur]

I tried using https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/ambertools and I'm unable to install using the command line. Also unable to do so using the manual install.

[ATpoint]

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[Ankur]

Hi, thank you for your reply. I'm not from programming background and trying to self learn bioinformatics, so I don't know the exact problem. I will try to be more descriptive this time. When I use conda install -c conda-forge ambertools, it gives me error for package. Which I see is because it is only for macos 64 not for macos arm64(apple silicon)

Error: PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:
 - ambertools

After searching on websites I couldn't find much. So I tried using the manual method mentioned on the website I get to and error after cmake which looks like this

Your installed version is: 0

Note that strict channel priority may have removed packages required for satisfiability.

CMake Error at cmake/UseMiniconda.cmake:160 (message):
  Installation of packages failed! Please fix what's wrong, or disable
  Miniconda.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake/PythonInterpreterConfig.cmake:63 (download_and_use_miniconda)
  CMakeLists.txt:121 (include)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/Users/ankur/amber22_src/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

and make install gives me

make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.

I need to know what can I follow to install ambertools in mac m1 as on one has asked for apple silicon before that I can refer to.

Answer 1

[Nico]

Take a look at this. You should be able to run the intel version through Rosetta (translates non Apple silicon instructions)

https://docs.openforcefield.org/projects/toolkit/en/stable/installation.html#installation-m1

As others have said, in the future try to outline what steps you've already taken and paste here whatever output you get from what you're trying to do, otherwise we have to sort of guess what you've tried and we might give you something irrelevant or something you already know doesn't work and have a long back and forth.

[Ankur]

Thank you it worked.

[Ram]

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