Installing qiime2 2017.7

[twhitney (Tabor)]

I was trying to update to the new qiime2 version and I am running into an issue with my conda environment. I tried deleting and reinstalling miniconda and making sure my python is still installed correctly and that all looks good. When I run qiime --version it says that the 2017.7.0 environment was successfully created. However under my conda environment it does not have any of the qiime environments created.

My conda environment is properly updated; however, when I run the installation command

conda create -n qiime2-2017.7 --file https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2017.7-conda-osx-64.txt

The following popped up

qiime2-2017.7- 100% |################################| Time: 0:00:00 611.94 kB/s

CondaError: FileNotFoundError(2, 'No such file or directory')
CondaError: FileNotFoundError(2, 'No such file or directory')
CondaError: FileNotFoundError(2, 'No such file or directory')

I have searched many forums on issues with my conda environment and have successfully reinstalled the correct miniconda package. If you could lead me in the right direction at all on how to just update to this new version, I would be very appreciative.

[thermokarst]

Hi @twhitney — this sounds like you are experiencing some kind of network failure (either locally, or anaconda.org is acting up). I would suggest trying to reinstall on a different network, or if the problem was at the anaconda.org end (obviously it is hard to know!) you could try again now. Otherwise, my suggestion would be to either reinstall miniconda (which it sounds like you have tried alread) or try clearing out the miniconda cache:

$ conda clean -y --all

If you are still experiencing problems, I would suggest contacting the miniconda support forum.