# QIIME2-2020.2 installation keeps solving environment. **URL:** \ **Category:** User Support\ **Created:** [May 7, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829 "2020-05-07T19:13:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bing](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Bing](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Bing)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/1 "2020-05-07T19:13:41Z")
``` qiime2-2020.2-py36-osx-co 100%[=====================================>] 5.29K --.-KB/s in 0s ``` 2020-05-07 15:06:20 (28.2 MB/s) - 'qiime2-2020.2-py36-osx-conda.yml' saved [5416/5416] Jinbings-iMac:~ jinbingbai$ conda env create -n qiime2-2020.2 --file qiime2-2020.2-py36-osx-conda.yml Solving environment: | The installation keeps "solving environment:..." and do not move forward in my Mac. Thanks for your help. ---
**Author:** ![thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/2 "2020-05-07T19:41:11Z")
Hi @Bing, give it some time - sometimes this process can take a while. If you don't see this resolve after the next hr or so, double check that there isn't a firewall on your network that is interfering with the package download process. ---
**Author:** ![Bing](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Bing](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Bing)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/3 "2020-05-11T03:56:02Z")
I tried it again. It run more than 8 hours and still not responding. I am not sure what to do and please suggest. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/4 "2020-05-11T14:21:09Z")
Hi @Bing! > [@Bing](#): > > I tried it again. It run more than 8 hours and still not responding Ah, I'm sorry. > [@Bing](#): > > I am not sure what to do and please suggest. Please see my suggestion above: > [@thermokarst](#): > > double check that there isn’t a firewall on your network that is interfering with the package download process. ---
**Author:** ![Bing](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Bing](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Bing)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/5 "2020-05-12T03:38:10Z")
I tried to check about it again. Actually this installation destroyed my old installation pathway of my other QIIME2 versions. i need to go back to my original version. Please let me know how can I set up my original default conda envs. ``` Last login: Mon May 11 23:26:39 on console ``` jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac ~ % source activate qiime2-2019.10 source: no such file or directory: activate jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac ~ % rm qiime2-2020.2-py36-osx-conda.yml jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac ~ % ls $300 Data Recovery Public 11086-file-listing 2.html Sites 11086-file-listing.html casava-18-paired-end-demultiplexed 11086-file-listing.zip heatmap-l6-Time.pdf Applications iCloud Drive (Archive) Bing's Files iih.rds BingQiime.pem.txt iih2.csv Creative Cloud Files miniconda3 Desktop npm-debug.log Documents private Downloads q2-picrust2\_full DropBox 6-22-2017 cc q2studio-0.0.6 Dropbox qiime2-2020.2-py36-linux-conda.yml HPScanner qiime2-2020.2-py36-osx-conda.yml.1 Library qiime2-2020.2-py36-osx-conda.yml.2 MY Files copy Sep 2014 qiime2-2020.2-py36-osx-conda.yml.3 Movies qiime2-2020.2-py36-osx-conda.yml.4 Music qiime2-moving-pictures-tutorial Pictures tmp Pictures1 xesoph.rds jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac ~ % rm qiime2-2020.2-py36-osx-conda.yml rm: qiime2-2020.2-py36-osx-conda.yml: No such file or directory jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac ~ % Please let me know how I can set back my default environment so that I can run QIIME2 directly. Also maybe that is the problem the new installation solving environment forever and never installed it. Thanks, Bing ---
**Author:** ![Bing](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Bing](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Bing)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/6 "2020-05-12T03:39:24Z")
Here is the complete story. I have installed several versions of QIIME2 (see codes below in my conda envs) in my computer and all work very well until i tried to install this newer version qiime2-2020.2. I tried to install qiime2-2020.2 and completed the conda update (went well), and then i moved to install qiime2-2020.2. It kept showing "solving environment |/" forever. I failed to install qiime2-2020.2. However, this process seems destroyed the path for all my other versions of qiime2 (see below). ``` Last login: Wed May 13 16:26:26 on ttys000 jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac ~ % source activate qiime2-2019.10 source: no such file or directory: activate jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac ~ % ls $300 Data Recovery Pictures 11086-file-listing 2.html Pictures1 11086-file-listing.html Public 11086-file-listing.zip Sites Applications casava-18-paired-end-demultiplexed Bing's Files cpr BingQiime.pem.txt heatmap-l6-Time.pdf Creative Cloud Files iCloud Drive (Archive) Desktop iih.rds Documents iih2.csv Downloads miniconda3 DropBox 6-22-2017 cc npm-debug.log Dropbox private HPScanner q2-picrust2_full Library q2studio-0.0.6 MY Files copy Sep 2014 qiime2-moving-pictures-tutorial Movies tmp Music xesoph.rds ``` i have to copy "activate" file from "bin" to put it in "envs" 😩 😩 I do not think this is right as I do not need to do anything before I updated conda and tried to install this new version of qiime2. What i did before was just enter "source activate qiime2-2019.10", it will run qiime2 for me. No additional steps at all. Here are the codes for my qiime2 installations before: ``` jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac ~ % cd miniconda3 jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac miniconda3 % ls LICENSE.txt doc lib pkgs sbin bin envs libexec plugins share conda-bld etc mkspecs qml ssl conda-meta include phrasebooks resources translations jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac miniconda3 % source activate qiime2-2019.10 source: no such file or directory: activate jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac miniconda3 % source envs source: no such file or directory: envs jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac miniconda3 % ls LICENSE.txt doc lib pkgs sbin bin envs libexec plugins share conda-bld etc mkspecs qml ssl conda-meta include phrasebooks resources translations jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac miniconda3 % cd envs jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac envs % ls qiime2-2018.4 qiime2-2019.10 qiime1 qiime2-2019.1 qiime2-2019.7 jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac envs % source activate qiime2-2019.10 complete:13: command not found: compdef (qiime2-2019.10) jinbingbai@x86_64-apple-darwin13 envs % ``` The location of qiime2-2019.10 suddenly became weird too, with "@x86\_64-apple-darwin13 envs" at the end, never have that before. i need your help with fixing this directory problem with miniconda first, then I need your help with qiime2-2020.2 installation. Thanks, Bing ---
**Author:** ![thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/7 "2020-05-14T15:06:42Z")
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**Author:** ![thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/8 "2020-05-15T23:01:55Z")
Hi @Bing - have you followed all of the miniconda installation instructions, including setting up your shell? I'm not really sure what is going on here, and I'm not certain we can help diagnose, since I don't see anything specifically related to QIIME 2 wrong here. ---
**Author:** ![thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/9 "2020-05-15T23:01:58Z")
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**Author:** ![Bing](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Bing](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Bing)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/10 "2020-05-15T23:18:04Z")
Yes. All the miniconda installation instructions were followed a while ago. I used QIIME2 very well without any issues. It happened suddenly when i tried to install qiime2-2020.2. As I have miniconda3 all the versions of QIIME2 in my mac already. see below: ``` jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac ~ % ls $300 Data Recovery Pictures 11086-file-listing 2.html Pictures1 11086-file-listing.html Public 11086-file-listing.zip Sites Applications casava-18-paired-end-demultiplexed Bing's Files cpr BingQiime.pem.txt heatmap-l6-Time.pdf Creative Cloud Files iCloud Drive (Archive) Desktop iih.rds Documents iih2.csv Downloads miniconda3 DropBox 6-22-2017 cc npm-debug.log Dropbox private HPScanner q2-picrust2_full Library q2studio-0.0.6 MY Files copy Sep 2014 qiime2-moving-pictures-tutorial Movies tmp Music xesoph.rds ``` Do I need to reinstall the miniconda3 again? Then I can install the qiime2? Thanks, Bing ---
**Author:** ![thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/11 "2020-05-15T23:20:30Z")
> [@Bing](#): > > Do I need to reinstall the miniconda3 again? Maybe? > [@Bing](#): > > I used QIIME2 very well without any issues. It happened suddenly when i tried to install qiime2-2020.2 Did you upgrade to macos catalina some time in there? That might be part of the problem... ---
**Author:** ![Bing](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Bing](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Bing)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 1:00am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/12 "2020-05-16T01:00:25Z")
Yes I updated this mac to Catalina for a while. I tried reinstall conda and it fixed some problem. Now i installed qiime2-2020.2. Here I still have some issues: ``` Last login: Fri May 15 19:44:58 on ttys000 (base) jinbingbai@Jinbings-iMac ~ % source activate qiime2-2020.2 complete:13: command not found: compdef (qiime2-2020.2) jinbingbai@x86_64-apple-darwin13 ~ % source deactivate qiime2-2020.2 source: no such file or directory: deactivate (qiime2-2020.2) jinbingbai@x86_64-apple-darwin13 ~ % ``` 1. command not found: compdef 2. deactivate command is not working? Do I need to fix these problems? Thanks, Bing ---
**Author:** ![thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/13 "2020-05-19T17:48:37Z")
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**Author:** ![thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/14 "2020-05-22T17:31:50Z")
> [@Bing](#): > > Yes I updated this mac to Catalina for a while If you didn't perform a clean, full installation, you might need to make some adjustments to your shell in order to ensure that everything works as expected. Please see this doc from the conda team: [https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/install/macos.html](https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/install/macos.html) ---
**Author:** ![thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/15 "2020-05-22T17:31:52Z")
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**Author:** ![Bing](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Bing](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Bing)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/16 "2020-05-22T19:33:11Z")
Thanks so much and have a good weekend! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum-qiime2-org.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/2/1/21af5fe23cb6f4579467c66a9ed94e55274ca7bd.svg) [@system](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 1:33am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-2020-2-installation-keeps-solving-environment/14829/17 "2020-06-23T01:33:13Z")
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