Issue to install decorator

[liuqianhn]

As asked by Prof. Wang, I tested the installation with my anaconda
in Chop HPC, and it failed to install decorator. The error is given below

2020-04-29 11:43:04,489 - conda.core.link - ERROR - An error occurred while installing package 'conda-forge::decorator-4.4.1-py_0'.
OSError(2, 'No such file or directory')
Attempting to roll back.

This might be related to my old version of anaconda (4.4.8), since I can successfully install it in biocluster (conda version 4.6.3).

This might be helpful for those users with older anaconda.

[jimhavrilla]

conda can self-update, not sure how this is an issue. one can simply run
conda update conda.

[jimhavrilla]

my personal feeling is, if using anaconda, it is up to the user to keep it up-to-date. we can also attach the docker image that @MenggeZhao created for the site to the releases (or push to hub.docker.com) so users can use it. i guess we can't use docker on CHOP HPC, but most users would benefit from a docker image.

[MenggeZhao]

@liuqianhn my conda version is 4.8.2. I didn't know the newer packages could not be downloaded in older conda version. I will update the README.md to notice other users.

[liuqianhn]

@MenggeZhao It is great to let users to know this in case they have similar issues. Updating conda can solve the issue but have a lot of conflict issues of other packages after the update.

[jimhavrilla]

In general, users of most software should be updating conda with very rare exceptions. This keeps the channels up-to-date and ensures packages are working properly.

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[jimhavrilla]

Additionally, the README.md has a line "If you do not wish to use Anaconda, simply install the packages in the file environment.yml using pip." in the README.md. This will also work with pip. I have added a note to update to the very most recent version of conda, and am closing this issue.