Missing diamond package for Windows 64-bit in bioconda channel

[KYW296]

Dear maintainers,
I encountered an issue while attempting to install carveme via conda on Windows 64-bit. The installation fails due to a missing dependency: diamond, which is not available in the bioconda channel for the win-64 platform.
Steps to reproduce:
Create a new Conda environment:
bash
conda create -n carveme_env python=3.9
conda activate carveme_env

Attempt to install carveme:
bash
conda install -c bioconda carveme

Error message:
plaintext
LibMambaUnsatisfiableError: Encountered problems while solving:

• nothing provides diamond needed by carveme-1.6.1-pyhdfd78af_0

Current environment details:
OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
Conda version: 24.11.3
Python version: 3.9
Channels: bioconda, conda-forge, defaults
Attempted solutions:
Manually installed diamond (version 2.1.11) from diamondsearch.org and added its path to the system PATH variable. However, Conda still cannot resolve the dependency.
Tried using mamba for faster dependency resolution, but the issue persists.
Request:
Could you please add the diamond package for win-64 to the bioconda channel? Alternatively, if there is an alternative installation method or workaround for Windows users, kindly share it.
Thank you for your help!
Best regards,
yawen kong

[bbuchfink]

I will look into providing a conda Windows version but it is not easily done. Your best option is to find another way to install carveme, or use --no-deps for conda install to skip dependency checking.