How to install Qiime2 (in particular Artifact API) with current conda environment? Mac OSX

[Nicholas_Bokulich]

Hi @jespinoz,
Have you had a chance to check out our installation guide? Artifact API is included in the basic installation.

To install in an existing conda environment, see this topic:

Installing QIIME2-2018.2 within an existing conda environment

Hello, I am trying to install QIIME2 within an existing conda environment. I use this environment for machine learning, so it already contains important packages. I need to add QIIME2 to this environment, but the installation instructions all require creating a new environment. I tried to install it using the command conda install --file qiime2-2018.2-py35-osx-conda.yml with my machine learning environment activated at the recommendation of @zech_xu , but got the error: could not parse ‘- q…

I hope that helps!