bioconda install

[hanrong498]

Hi!

I am trying to install wiggletools using conda directly https://anaconda.org/bioconda/wiggletools.

I had a small issue that

$ wiggletools --help
wiggletools: error while loading shared libraries: libgsl.so.19: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It seems that the current default version of gsl is 2.7.1 and installation results in libgsl.so.27. A way to work around this is to downgrade libgsl:

conda install gsl=2.2.1

Hope this can save some time for ppl having the same problem!

[dzerbino]

Dear @hanrong498 ,

Thanks for the heads up!

It would seem that this problem is specific to your computer's setup, as neither Wiggletools nor its bioconda recipe specify a version for GSL. I am no conda expert, but it has possibly something to do with the way the package was built.

Cheers,

Daniel

[alexbarrera]

Just a heads up that the workaround provided by @hanrong498 pinging gsl=2.2.1 made me downgrade wiggletools to v1.2.1.

I was able to run the latest version of wiggletools after installing gsl via conda-forge with conda install -c conda-forge gsl.

[rikrdo89]

I also was experiencing a similar issue after installing wiggletools with conda:
wiggletools: error while loading shared libraries: libgsl.so.25: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I figured out that libgsl.so.25 was installed if I specified gsl=2.6. However, installing using mamba was impossible because it made wiggletools dependent on gsl=2.7 or later. However installation with conda did not have the same issues:

here is the final command I used in case it is helpful to anyone:

conda install bioconda::wiggletools conda-forge::gsl=2.6