How to install QIIME 2 2017.12

[Arun04 (Arutchelvan Rajamanikam)]

Hi there,

Im trying to install Qiime2 on my MacOS. Managed to install the latest conda version as below:

ShasiKumarsMBP:~ Crueljoker$ conda -V
conda 4.4.7

Im now trying to create the conda environment using the command given in the website but there is an error as below:

ShasiKumarsMBP:~ Crueljoker$ conda env create -n qiime2-2017.12 --file qiime2-2017.12-py35-osx-conda.yml
Using Anaconda API: https://api.anaconda.org

SpecNotFound: Invalid name, try the format: user/package

Please help as I am a novice in scripting.

Thank you.

[colinbrislawn (Colin J Brislawn)]

Good morning Arutchelvan,

My guess is that the configuration file was not found by conda. Keep in mind you have to download it first with wget…

wget https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2017.12-py35-osx-conda.yml

… then you can install it with conda:

conda env create -n qiime2-2017.12 --file qiime2-2017.12-py35-osx-conda.yml

Let me know if that helps,
Colin