Issue with installing QIIME2 2021.11 on Windows 10

Hi QIIME support team,

I'm attempting to install QIIME2 on my Windows 10 machine. I installed Anaconda3, then set up conda to run in Git Bash:

echo ". ${PWD}/conda.sh" >> ~/.bashrc

Once I restarted Git Bash and activated Conda, I installed python-wget because installation of wget kept getting the following error:

$ conda install wget
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): ...working... done
Solving environment: ...working... failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): ...working... done
Solving environment: ...working... failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.

PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:

  • wget

Current channels:

To search for alternate channels that may provide the conda package you're
looking for, navigate to

https://anaconda.org

and use the search bar at the top of the page.

Once python-wget was installed, I followed the installation instructions found in the manual:

$ python -m wget https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2021.11-py38-linux-conda.yml

Saved under qiime2-2021.11-py38-linux-conda.yml

However I wasn't able to create the environment needed for qiime2:

$ conda env create -n qiime2-2021.11 --file qiime2-2021.11-py38-linux-conda.yml
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): ...working... done
Solving environment: ...working... failed

ResolvePackageNotFound:

  • bioconductor-dada2=1.18.0
  • vsearch=2.7.0
  • q2-quality-filter=2021.11.0
  • htslib=1.14
  • bioconductor-delayedarray=0.16.3
  • entrez-direct=16.2
  • q2-emperor=2021.11.0
  • q2cli=2021.11.0
  • hdmedians=0.14.2
  • bioconductor-s4vectors=0.28.1
  • _openmp_mutex=4.5
  • q2-deblur=2021.11.0
  • sortmerna=2.0
  • q2-diversity=2021.11.0
  • tktable=2.10
  • libnghttp2=1.43.0
  • bioconductor-biostrings=2.58.0
  • sed=4.8
  • gfortran_impl_linux-64=9.4.0
  • bioconductor-iranges=2.24.1
  • libgfortran-ng=11.2.0
  • readline=8.1
  • libedit=3.1.20191231
  • perl-compress-raw-zlib=2.087
  • q2-taxa=2021.11.0
  • gcc_impl_linux-64=9.4.0
  • libsanitizer=9.4.0
  • perl-compress-raw-bzip2=2.087
  • binutils_impl_linux-64=2.36.1
  • perl-archive-tar=2.18
  • libuuid=2.32.1
  • nss=3.72
  • emperor=1.0.3
  • qiime2=2021.11.0
  • libev=4.33
  • libgcc=7.2.0
  • perl-json-xs=2.34
  • libgcc-ng=11.2.0
  • bioconductor-genomicranges=1.42.0
  • bioconductor-zlibbioc=1.36.0
  • libgomp=11.2.0
  • perl-carp=1.38
  • libnsl=2.0.0
  • libxkbcommon=1.0.3
  • q2-mystery-stew=2021.11.0
  • blast=2.12.0
  • libstdcxx-ng=11.2.0
  • ncurses=6.2
  • dnaio=0.6.0
  • libgfortran5=11.2.0
  • q2-phylogeny=2021.11.0
  • perl-pathtools=3.75
  • gxx_impl_linux-64=9.4.0
  • perl-list-moreutils=0.413
  • q2-dada2=2021.11.0
  • q2-quality-control=2021.11.0
  • perl-threaded=5.26.0
  • q2-diversity-lib=2021.11.0
  • q2-metadata=2021.11.0
  • samtools=1.14
  • pbzip2=1.1.13
  • bioconductor-xvector=0.30.0
  • q2-cutadapt=2021.11.0
  • q2-alignment=2021.11.0
  • perl-types-serialiser=1.0
  • gfortran_linux-64=9.4.0
  • q2templates=2021.11.0
  • q2-fragment-insertion=2021.11.0
  • nspr=4.32
  • perl-io-compress=2.087
  • dbus=1.13.6
  • q2-gneiss=2021.11.0
  • bioconductor-biocparallel=1.24.1
  • perl-io-zlib=1.10
  • alsa-lib=1.2.3
  • raxml=8.2.12
  • q2-types=2021.11.0
  • bioconductor-rhtslib=1.22.0
  • q2-vsearch=2021.11.0
  • q2-sample-classifier=2021.11.0
  • perl-common-sense=3.74
  • binutils_linux-64=2.36
  • q2-composition=2021.11.0
  • gxx_linux-64=9.4.0
  • ld_impl_linux-64=2.36.1
  • hmmer=3.1b2
  • q2-longitudinal=2021.11.0
  • cutadapt=3.5
  • q2-feature-classifier=2021.11.0
  • q2galaxy=2021.11.0
  • libgcc-devel_linux-64=9.4.0
  • perl-scalar-list-utils=1.52
  • bioconductor-shortread=1.48.0
  • q2-feature-table=2021.11.0
  • fasttree=2.1.10
  • bioconductor-genomicalignments=1.26.0
  • mafft=7.490
  • unifrac=0.20.2
  • bowtie2=2.4.2
  • q2-demux=2021.11.0
  • perl-json=4.02
  • iqtree=2.1.4_beta
  • gcc_linux-64=9.4.0
  • scikit-bio=0.5.6
  • sepp=4.3.10
  • bioconductor-biobase=2.50.0
  • bioconductor-rsamtools=2.6.0
  • libstdcxx-devel_linux-64=9.4.0
  • perl-exporter-tiny=1.002001

I perused past topics that had similar installation problems, but they were for older versions or different machines, so I wasn't sure if my problem is unique. Any kind of help would be appreciated!

Ps. I also ran conda info for more information about the conda installation:

$ conda info

 active environment : base
active env location : C:\Anaconda3
        shell level : 1
   user config file : C:\Users\273328C\.condarc

populated config files : C:\Users\273328C.condarc
conda version : 4.11.0
conda-build version : 3.21.6
python version : 3.9.7.final.0
virtual packages : __win=0=0
__archspec=1=x86_64
base environment : C:\Anaconda3 (writable)
conda av data dir : C:\Anaconda3\etc\conda
conda av metadata url : None
channel URLs : https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/win-64
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/win-64
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/win-64
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/win-64
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/noarch
package cache : C:\Anaconda3\pkgs
C:\Users\273328C.conda\pkgs
C:\Users\273328C\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
envs directories : C:\Anaconda3\envs
C:\Users\273328C.conda\envs
C:\Users\273328C\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
platform : win-64
user-agent : conda/4.11.0 requests/2.26.0 CPython/3.9.7 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.19042
administrator : False
netrc file : None
offline mode : False

@dscheah,

It looks like you are trying to install QIIME 2 directly on Windows 10, which we unfortunately do not support at this point. Fortunately Windows Subsystem for Linux exists. After you install it (see Microsoft's docs) you can install QIIME 2 on it inside of Windows following the directions for a Linux install.

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Thanks for the reply. I had started looking into using WSL for my machine, so will try that out for my next step. Cheers!

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