Installing Qiime on Google Colab

Hi, Today June 1, I tried to use this updated script (2023 version), but the error, persist, how can deal with this? This is the error.

[00:30:42] :snake: Miniforge is already installed. Skipped. setup_qiime2:98
:magnifying_glass_tilted_left: Downloading Qiime 2 package list... setup_qiime2:67
[00:30:43] :magnifying_glass_tilted_left: Done. setup_qiime2:73
:magnifying_glass_tilted_left: Installing Qiime 2. This may take a little bit. setup_qiime2:67
:one_o_clock:
could not install Qiime 2 :sob: error libmamba Non-conda folder exists at prefix setup_qiime2:75
critical libmamba Aborting.

       ๐Ÿงน Cleaned up unneeded files.                                                            setup_qiime2:62

An exception has occurred, use %tb to see the full traceback.

SystemExit: 1

Hi, the strategy we used to install Qiime on collab does not work anymore with newer conda or mamba versions. There is a new version here that uses a different approach.

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