installing issues - sra-tools

[OdileHarrison]

Hello - had the following errors when installing fastq-dl via conda:

"Could not solve for environment specs
The following packages are incompatible
└─ fastq-dl is not installable because there are no viable options
├─ fastq-dl [1.0.0|1.0.1|1.0.2|1.0.3] would require
│ └─ sra-tools, which does not exist (perhaps a missing channel);
├─ fastq-dl [1.0.4|1.0.5|1.0.6|1.1.0|1.1.1] would require
│ └─ sra-tools >=2.9 , which does not exist (perhaps a missing channel);
└─ fastq-dl [1.2.0|2.0.0|...|2.0.4] would require
└─ sra-tools >=3.0.1 , which does not exist (perhaps a missing channel)."

It seems there is an issue with sra-tools. Do i need to install this prior to fastq-dl?

Thanks!

[mbhall88]

What OS are you on?

[OdileHarrison]

Windows 10, 64 bit

[mbhall88]

SRA-tools appears to only be available on linux and mac from conda (https://anaconda.org/bioconda/sra-tools). So you would need to download the windows version of sra-tools from here. Related to #27 we probably need to document a non-conda way of installing fastq-dl. But you can install it with pip install fastq-dl.