Unable to download qiime2.-metaqenome-2024.10 with incompatible system

Hi @Kuakua-c,

You are correct to install qiime2-metagenome-2024.10 as you did. The problem is that your linux system is out of date. I've run into this same issue myself. The key error is:

 __glibc >=2.28,<3.0.0a0

See these threads:

The issue is the ldd version. You can determine this by typing the following in the terminal:

ldd --version

It should be 2.28<= 3.0. Mine was 2.17, which is incompatible. Basically, I found that the two HPC systems that I have access to need to be updated at the system level. That is, our systems have ldd 2.17 , but ldd >=2.28 < 3.0 is required to install any of the recent QIIME 2 distributions. There are also many other tools I am unable to install because of this.

My suggestion would be to make use of the docker containers. This helped me get around the issue and I am able to run this image, via Apptainer / Singularity on our HPC.

-Mike

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