Installation error on Ubuntu 24.04

Technical Support
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I am trying to install Qiime on my workstation to process some reads, I tried installing with conda, and it failed:

conda env create
--name rachis-qiime2-2026.4
--file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qiime2/distributions/refs/heads/dev/2026.4/qiime2/released/rachis-qiime2-linux-64-conda.yml
2 channel Terms of Service accepted
Channels:

  • conda-forge
  • bioconda
  • released
  • defaults
    Platform: linux-64
    Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
    Solving environment: failed

LibMambaUnsatisfiableError: Encountered problems while solving:

  • package deblur-1.1.1-pyhdfd78af_0 requires sortmerna 2.0, but none of the providers can be installed

Could not solve for environment specs
The following package could not be installed
└─ deblur =1.1.1 * is not installable because it requires
└─ sortmerna ==2.0 *, which conflicts with any installable versions previously reported.

Any reason why those errors and how to fix them?

4

Hi @desmodus1984 and welcome to the :qiime2: forum!

Could you check your current conda channel priority settings with conda config --show channel_priority? If it says strict, change it to flexible with conda config --set channel_priority flexible. Once that's done, and just in case, you can clear your conda cache with conda clean (I would do something like conda clean --all -y) and retry your installing command.

Let us know if that doesn't fix your problem!

Best,

Sergio