Installing QIIME2-2018.2 within an existing conda environment

[ebolyen (Evan Bolyen)]

Hi @aeriel.belk!

Sorry for my delayed response.

@aeriel.belk

conda install --file qiime2-2018.2-py35-osx-conda.yml

with my machine learning environment activated at the recommendation of @zech_xu , but got the error:

could not parse ‘- qiime2/label/r2018.2’ in: qiime2-2018.2-py35-osx-conda.yml

This is a poorly worded error from conda, fortunately the fix is simple.
Change conda install -> conda env update. The way the --file flag works is different between those. See this post for more details.