PackagesNotFoundError with installation.

[chrissy005]

Hello,

I get the following error as I try to install the package with Conda. Could you advise how I can proceed further.

conda create -n bit -c astrobiomike -c conda-forge -c bioconda -c defaults bit Channels:

• astrobiomike
• conda-forge
• bioconda
• defaults Platform: osx-arm64 Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done Solving environment: failed

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

• bit

Current channels:

• https://conda.anaconda.org/astrobiomike
• https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge
• https://conda.anaconda.org/bioconda
• defaults

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.

[chrissy005]

I think I managed to resolve this by specifying the platform flag in the command - "--platform osx-64" as the default platform is osx-arm64

[AstrobioMike]

Heya, Chrissy :)

Glad you sorted it out! But one point of clarification, that's not the default for any package (including bit), it's a default determined by your conda installation. The vast majority of things are still more likely to be found for the osx-64 architecture but not for the osx-arm64 one (including many of bit's dependencies).

It's probably easiest to set your default to use osx-64, or install that version of conda rather than the osx-arm64 version (e.g., as recommended here).