### Author:  [@peterjon123](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/peterjon123)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/error-when-installing-qiime2-within-a-conda-environment-using-wls/23397/1 "2022-06-19T21:37:00Z")
Hello,
I am nearly finished installing qiime2 on my windows laptop with a linux subsystem using ubuntu 22.04 LTS, but I'm having trouble with the last step of installing it within a conda environment. I receive the error message:
(base) peterjon123\_project@LAPTOP-MAUIA3K9:~$ conda env create -n qiime2-2022.2 --file qiime2-2022.2-py38-linux-conda.yml
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): failed
# \>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\> ERROR REPORT \<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/core/subdir_data.py", line 374, in _load
raw_repodata_str = fetch_repodata_remote_request(
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/core/subdir_data.py", line 818, in fetch_repodata_remote_request
raise Response304ContentUnchanged()
conda.core.subdir_data.Response304ContentUnchanged
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/exceptions.py", line 1114, in __call__
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda_env/cli/main.py", line 80, in do_call
exit_code = getattr(module, func_name)(args, parser)
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda_env/cli/main_create.py", line 143, in execute
result[installer_type] = installer.install(prefix, pkg_specs, args, env)
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda_env/installers/conda.py", line 50, in install
unlink_link_transaction = solver.solve_for_transaction(
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/core/solve.py", line 152, in solve_for_transaction
unlink_precs, link_precs = self.solve_for_diff(update_modifier, deps_modifier,
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/core/solve.py", line 195, in solve_for_diff
final_precs = self.solve_final_state(update_modifier, deps_modifier, prune, ignore_pinned,
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/core/solve.py", line 300, in solve_final_state
ssc = self._collect_all_metadata(ssc)
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/common/io.py", line 86, in decorated
return f(*args, **kwds)
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/core/solve.py", line 463, in _collect_all_metadata
index, r = self._prepare(prepared_specs)
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/core/solve.py", line 1058, in _prepare
reduced_index = get_reduced_index(self.prefix, self.channels,
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/core/index.py", line 287, in get_reduced_index
new_records = SubdirData.query_all(spec, channels=channels, subdirs=subdirs,
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/core/subdir_data.py", line 139, in query_all
result = tuple(concat(executor.map(subdir_query, channel_urls)))
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 611, in result_iterator
yield fs.pop().result()
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 439, in result
return self.__get_result()
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 388, in __get_result
raise self._exception
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 57, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/core/subdir_data.py", line 131, in
subdir_query = lambda url: tuple(SubdirData(Channel(url), repodata_fn=repodata_fn).query(
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/core/subdir_data.py", line 144, in query
self.load()
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/core/subdir_data.py", line 209, in load
_internal_state = self._load()
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/core/subdir_data.py", line 392, in _load
_internal_state = self._read_local_repdata(mod_etag_headers.get('_etag'),
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/core/subdir_data.py", line 441, in _read_local_repdata
_internal_state = self._process_raw_repodata_str(raw_repodata_str)
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda/core/subdir_data.py", line 479, in _process_raw_repodata_str
json_obj = json.loads(raw_repodata_str or '{}')
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/json/ __init__.py", line 357, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 353, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Unterminated string starting at: line 3218 column 9 (char 98156)
```
`$ /home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3/bin/conda-env create -n qiime2-2022.2 --file qiime2-2022.2-py38-linux-conda.yml`
environment variables:
CIO\_TEST=
CONDA\_AUTO\_UPDATE\_CONDA=false
CONDA\_DEFAULT\_ENV=base
CONDA\_EXE=/home/peterjon123\_project/anaconda3/bin/conda
CONDA\_PREFIX=/home/peterjon123\_project/anaconda3
CONDA\_PROMPT\_MODIFIER=(base)
CONDA\_PYTHON\_EXE=/home/peterjon123\_project/anaconda3/bin/python
CONDA\_ROOT=/home/peterjon123\_project/anaconda3
CONDA\_SHLVL=1
CURL\_CA\_BUNDLE=
PATH=/home/peterjon123\_project/anaconda3/bin:/home/peterjon123\_project/anac
onda3/bin:/home/peterjon123\_project/anaconda3/condabin:/usr/local/sbin
:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/ga
mes:/mnt/c/Program Files/WindowsApps/CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu22.04
LTS\_2204.0.10.0\_x64\_\_79rhkp1fndgsc:/mnt/c/Program Files
(x86)/Intel/iCLS Client:/mnt/c/Program Files/Intel/iCLS Client:/mnt/c/
WINDOWS/system32:/mnt/c/WINDOWS:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/mnt/c/WI
NDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/mnt/c/Program Files
(x86)/Intel/Intel(R) Management Engine Components/DAL:/mnt/c/Program
Files/Intel/Intel(R) Management Engine Components/DAL:/mnt/c/Program
Files (x86)/Intel/Intel(R) Management Engine
Components/IPT:/mnt/c/Program Files/Intel/Intel(R) Management Engine C
omponents/IPT:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/OpenSSH:/mnt/c/Users/Owner/AppDa
ta/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps:/snap/bin
REQUESTS\_CA\_BUNDLE=
SSL\_CERT\_FILE=
```
active environment : base
active env location : /home/peterjon123_project/anaconda3
shell level : 1
user config file : /home/peterjon123_project/.condarc
```
populated config files :
conda version : 4.13.0
conda-build version : 3.20.5
python version : 3.8.5.final.0
virtual packages : \_\_linux=4.4.0=0
\_\_glibc=2.35=0
\_\_unix=0=0
\_\_archspec=1=x86\_64
base environment : /home/peterjon123\_project/anaconda3 (writable)
conda av data dir : /home/peterjon123\_project/anaconda3/etc/conda
conda av metadata url : None
channel URLs : [main/linux-64](https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/linux-64)
[main/noarch](https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch)
[r/linux-64](https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/linux-64)
[r/noarch](https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch)
package cache : /home/peterjon123\_project/anaconda3/pkgs
/home/peterjon123\_project/.conda/pkgs
envs directories : /home/peterjon123\_project/anaconda3/envs
/home/peterjon123\_project/.conda/envs
platform : linux-64
user-agent : conda/4.13.0 requests/2.24.0 CPython/3.8.5 Linux/4.4.0-19041-Microsoft ubuntu/22.04 glibc/2.35
UID:GID : 1000:1000
netrc file : None
offline mode : False
An unexpected error has occurred. Conda has prepared the above report.
If submitted, this report will be used by core maintainers to improve
future releases of conda.
Would you like conda to send this report to the core maintainers?
No report sent. To permanently opt-out, use
```
$ conda config --set report_errors false
```
I saw there was a similar thread posted by someone else, and the suggestion there was to delete the file and redownload it. I tried that, and I didn't have any luck. Do you have any other suggestions.
Thank you,
Jonathan
---
### Author:  [@lizgehret](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/lizgehret)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2022, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/error-when-installing-qiime2-within-a-conda-environment-using-wls/23397/2 "2022-06-22T21:27:11Z")
Hi Jonathan,
Welcome to the :qiime2: forum!
To my knowledge, this error is due to an incomplete file (which may have been due to an issue while downloading) - can you please share how you downloaded the QIIME 2 environment file (either screenshots or copy/paste your terminal output)? Thanks! 🦎
---
### Author:  [@peterjon123](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/peterjon123)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/error-when-installing-qiime2-within-a-conda-environment-using-wls/23397/3 "2022-06-23T16:21:11Z")
Hello,
Thank you for getting back to me. I used the command that was on the [qiime2.org](http://qiime2.org) site for natively installing qiime2 in Windows Subsystem for Linux (64 bit):
wget [https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2022.2-py38-linux-conda.yml](https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2022.2-py38-linux-conda.yml)
Here's the terminal output (note: I've done this a few times, so that's why it is saved as qiime2-2022.2-py38-linux-conda.yml.3):
(base) peterjon123\_project@LAPTOP-MAUIA3K9:~$ wget [https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2022.2-py38-linux-conda.yml](https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2022.2-py38-linux-conda.yml)
--2022-06-23 12:17:42-- [https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2022.2-py38-linux-conda.yml](https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2022.2-py38-linux-conda.yml)
Resolving [data.qiime2.org](http://data.qiime2.org) ([data.qiime2.org](http://data.qiime2.org))... 54.200.1.12
Connecting to [data.qiime2.org](http://data.qiime2.org) ([data.qiime2.org](http://data.qiime2.org))|54.200.1.12|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 FOUND
Location: [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qiime2/environment-files/master/2022.2/release/qiime2-2022.2-py38-linux-conda.yml](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qiime2/environment-files/master/2022.2/release/qiime2-2022.2-py38-linux-conda.yml) [following]
--2022-06-23 12:17:43-- [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qiime2/environment-files/master/2022.2/release/qiime2-2022.2-py38-linux-conda.yml](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qiime2/environment-files/master/2022.2/release/qiime2-2022.2-py38-linux-conda.yml)
Resolving [raw.githubusercontent.com](http://raw.githubusercontent.com) ([raw.githubusercontent.com](http://raw.githubusercontent.com))... 185.199.109.133, 185.199.110.133, 185.199.111.133, ...
Connecting to [raw.githubusercontent.com](http://raw.githubusercontent.com) ([raw.githubusercontent.com](http://raw.githubusercontent.com))|185.199.109.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9923 (9.7K) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘qiime2-2022.2-py38-linux-conda.yml.3’
qiime2-2022.2-py38-linux-cond 100%[=================================================\>] 9.69K --.-KB/s in 0.02s
2022-06-23 12:17:44 (548 KB/s) - ‘qiime2-2022.2-py38-linux-conda.yml.3’ saved [9923/9923]
Is this what you wanted? If not, let me know and I can try to find the right output.
Thanks again for your help,
Jonathan
---
### Author:  [@lizgehret](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/lizgehret)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/error-when-installing-qiime2-within-a-conda-environment-using-wls/23397/4 "2022-06-23T16:21:18Z")
---
### Author:  [@lizgehret](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/lizgehret)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/error-when-installing-qiime2-within-a-conda-environment-using-wls/23397/5 "2022-06-28T17:41:36Z")
Hi @peterjon123,
Thanks for providing those details! I have a couple of follow-up questions:
1. Are you running these commands within your WSL terminal? If not, you'll need to re-run all of the install commands within your WSL terminal.
2. Have you made sure you're running the latest version of `conda`? If not, you'll need to run `conda update conda` within your WSL terminal before re-trying your install commands.
Please try these suggestions, and let me know if you are still running into the same issue!
Cheers 🦎
---
### Author:  [@lizgehret](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/lizgehret)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/error-when-installing-qiime2-within-a-conda-environment-using-wls/23397/6 "2022-06-28T17:41:39Z")
---
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2022, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/error-when-installing-qiime2-within-a-conda-environment-using-wls/23397/7 "2022-07-29T23:41:44Z")
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