Installation - environment file not found

[rjay428 (Rylee Jensen)]

Hi all!

Brand new to QIIME2 and with the Python environment as well. I'm running into an issue during the installation process that is close to what is posted on here, but I haven't been able to figure out this exact problem. I am trying to run QIIME 2 in a conda environment with a Windows Linux installer system. I am following the step-by-step installer guide (Natively installing QIIME 2 — QIIME 2 2023.7.0 documentation) and this is where I'm stuck: after creating a new QIIME 2 environment, I'm getting an error after this line of code:

wget https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2023.7-py38-linux-conda.yml
conda env create -n qiime2-2023.7 --file qiime2-2023.7-py38-linux-conda.yml

I think I installed wget correctly (with "conda install python-wget"), but then I get this error after trying to run the second line:

EnvironmentFileNotFound: 'C:\Users\ryjensen\qiime2-2023.7-py38-linux-conda.yml' file not found

Any help is appreciated!

[colinvwood (Colin Wood)]

Hello @rjay428,

It looks like you're in your windows command prompt, make sure you're in the linux command prompt for the qiime installation.

[cherman2 (Chloe Herman)]

Hi @rjay428!
Welcome to the forum!

Hmm this is weird! As I think you have already figured out. This errror indicated that the file is not being downloaded to your computer.

After you run this line:

@rjay428

wget https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2023.7-py38-linux-conda.yml

What happens? Does it say it was successful in downloading this file?
After you run this command can you make sure that this file qiime2-2023.7-py38-linux-conda.yml is in your directory?

Hope that helps!

[rjay428 (Rylee Jensen)]

This is what came up:

StatusCode : 200
StatusDescription : OK
Content : channels:
- qiime2/label/r2023.7
- bioconda
- conda-forge
- defaults
dependencies:
- _libgcc_mutex=0.1
- _openmp_mutex=4.5
- _r-mutex=1.0.1
- alsa-lib=1.2.8
- altair=5.0.1
- anyio=3.7.1
- appdirs=1.4....
RawContent : HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'; style-src 'unsafe-inline'; sandbox
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
...
Forms : {}
Headers : {[Connection, keep-alive], [Content-Security-Policy, default-src 'none'; style-src
'unsafe-inline'; sandbox], [Strict-Transport-Security, max-age=31536000], [X-Content-Type-Options,
nosniff]...}
Images : {}
InputFields : {}
Links : {}
ParsedHtml : mshtml.HTMLDocumentClass
RawContentLength : 13917

Would you recommend manually downloading and moving the file in my directory somewhere? When I click the link it comes up with a list of channels and dependencies; should I create that as a text file?

[cherman2 (Chloe Herman)]

You could just manual download the file(it is the text file you saw) and put it in the directory that you are using. But it would probably be good to figure out this wget issue.

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