I have succussfully instaled using the pip option, however, qiime still does not show plugin. Here are some of the messages I got :
successfully built scnic
Installing collected packages: scnic
Successfully installed scnic-0.6.2
(qiime2-2020.8) localhost:subtables able$ qiime SCNIC sparcc-filter
Error: QIIME 2 has no plugin/command named 'SCNIC'.
(qiime2-2020.8) localhost:subtables able$ qiime scnic-0.6.2 sparcc-filter
Error: QIIME 2 has no plugin/command named 'scnic-0.6.2'.
(qiime2-2020.8) localhost:subtables able$ qiime scnic sparcc-filter
Error: QIIME 2 has no plugin/command named 'scnic'.
many thanks for the help.