# Installation error on Ubuntu 24.04
**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/installation-error-on-ubuntu-24-04/34233
**Category:** Technical Support
**Created:** [July 1, 2026, 6:20am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/installation-error-on-ubuntu-24-04/34233 "2026-07-01T06:20:14Z")
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### Author:  [@desmodus1984](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/desmodus1984)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 6:20am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/installation-error-on-ubuntu-24-04/34233/1 "2026-07-01T06:20:14Z")
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](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](https://packages.qiime2.org/qiime2/2026.4/qiime2/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?
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### Author:  [@salias](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/salias)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 9:47am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/installation-error-on-ubuntu-24-04/34233/4 "2026-07-01T09:47:55Z")
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](https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/stable/commands/clean.html) (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
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2026, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/installation-error-on-ubuntu-24-04/34233/5 "2026-08-01T15:48:02Z")
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