libtinfow.so.6: no version information available (required by samtools)

[bhimbbiswa]

Hi,

Already been solved, adding here for information to others.

I faced the above problem when I installed coverm to my institute cluster using the following command.

conda create -n conda coverm

I thought the problem is with ncurses following this advice, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72103046/libtinfo-so-6-no-version-information-available-message-using-conda-environment so installed it separately in a new environment and then installed coverm.

conda create -n conda coverm2 -c conda-forge ncurses
conda activate coverm2
conda install coverm

This also doesn't solve the problem.

Later I found Samtools has an issue about this problem.

https://github.com/samtools/samtools/issues/1822

So, I followed the advice of @jmarshall and set the priority channel using the following command.

conda config --add channels defaults
conda config --add channels bioconda
conda config --add channels conda-forge
conda config --set channel_priority strict

This solved the problem for me.

[wwood]

Ah, thanks. Ouch. A transient problem which will hopefully be fixed soon by bioconda.

Since you did a great job outlining the problem and solution, I'm closing this. Thanks.

[ywbzhang]

I cannot solve this problem based on the above method. However, I used "conda install -y samtools=1.6 htslib=1.6" to demote samtools and htslib, and the problem was solved perfectly. It is worth noting that this installation process is very long and requires patience.