request: arm64 conda install

[ctb]

hi! looks like an arm64 package isn't being built. further investigation suggests that maybe bioconda doesn't do arm64 yet: bioconda/bioconda-utils#706, bioconda/bioconda-recipes#23454. conda-forge seems to, however.

so, just dropping this here, not sure there's anything to be done unless you want to move to conda-forge :)

[shenwei356]

Oh, yes, hope Bioconda supports it soon. We have to ask users to manually download the arm64 binaries right now.

I'm not sure if it's difficult to submit to conda-forge, I'll try it for the next version.

[corneliusroemer]

You'd have to build from source - conda forge doesn't like repackaging binaries.

But maybe they are more lenient with ARM?

[shenwei356]

I've added a guide to installing from source for other tools, it could help.

# ------------------- install golang -----------------

# download Go from https://go.dev/dl
wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.17.13.linux-amd64.tar.gz

tar -zxf go1.17.13.linux-amd64.tar.gz -C $HOME/

# or 
#   echo "export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
#   source ~/.bashrc
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin


# ------------- the latest stable version -------------

go get -v -u github.com/shenwei356/csvtk/csvtk

# The executable binary file is located in:
#   ~/go/bin/csvtk
# You can also move it to anywhere in the $PATH
mkdir -p $HOME/bin
cp ~/go/bin/csvtk $HOME/bin/

# --------------- the development version --------------

git clone https://github.com/shenwei356/csvtk
cd csvtk/csvtk/
go build

# The executable binary file is located in:
#   ./csvtk
# You can also move it to anywhere in the $PATH
mkdir -p $HOME/bin
cp ./csvtk $HOME/bin/

[shenwei356]

It looks like conda supports this now: bioconda/bioconda-recipes#46620

[corneliusroemer]

Yep, linux-arm64 support is quite recent, like 2 weeks old

[shenwei356]

That's really good news. How about MacOS-arm? Where can I find the tutorial or an example? I didn't find any after searching.

[corneliusroemer]

MacOS arm is in the works, they say, but it's hard to tell from the outside whether that's a few months or years.

What tutorial were you looking for?

[shenwei356]

Document about how to provide conda packages for arm platforms :)

[corneliusroemer]

Here we go: https://bioconda.github.io/developer/aarch64.html