Problem installing QIIME 2 (Amplicon distribution) 2024.10 within a conda environment in Windows (via WSL)

[Modinat (Afolakemi Abibat ALIMI)]

I am trying to install the amplicon distribution on WSL using conda (with: conda env create -n qiime2-amplicon-2024.10 --file https://data.qiime2.org/distro/amplicon/qiime2-amplicon-2024.10-py310-linux-conda.yml).

But, I keep getting the following error:
(base) C:\Users\afolakemia.UJ>conda env create -n qiime2-amplicon-2024.10 --file https://data.qiime2.org/distro/amplicon/qiime2-amplicon-2024.10-py310-linux-conda.yml
Channels:

• released
• conda-forge
• bioconda
• defaults
  Platform: win-64
  Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
  Solving environment: failed

LibMambaUnsatisfiableError: Encountered problems while solving:

• unsupported request
• unsupported request
• unsupported request
• unsupported request
• unsupported request
• unsupported request
• unsupported request
• unsupported request
• unsupported request
• unsupported request

Kindly assist with how the problem can be fixed. Thanks.

[colinvwood (Colin Wood)]

Hello @Modinat,

It looks like you were not in a wsl shell when you ran these commands, make sure you are and then try again.

[SoilRotifer (Mike Robeson)]

Hi @Modinat,

I suggest reading through the threads linked here via these posts:

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