Installing Bowtie2 from Miniconda

Installing Bowtie2 from Miniconda

I recently bought a Mac and I just installed miniconda (Miniconda3 macOS Apple M1 64-bit pkg). However, when I try to install bowtie2 (conda install -c bioconda bowtie2), I get this message:

Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve. Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.

PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:

  • bowtie2

Current channels:

However, the package looks to be in bioconda:

What is the problem there? I can install other packages with no further issues.

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I realized that I couldn't install it using Miniconda3 macOS Apple M1 64-bit pkg, but I could install it with the Miniconda3 macOS Intel x86 64-bit pkg...

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