bioconda-utils is a set of utilities for building and managing bioconda recipes.

Since bioconda-utils is tightly coupled to bioconda-recipes, it is strongly recommended that bioconda-utils be set up and used according to the instructions at https://bioconda.github.io/contributor/index.html. This will ensure that your local setup matches that used to build recipes on travis-ci as closely as possible.

However, if you would like to test in a standalone manner or help develop bioconda-utils, you can use the respective Pixi tasks defined in pixi.toml. You will need an installation of pixi. Then, you can install the current bioconda-utils version in your local folder into the dev environment, by running the install task:

pixi run install

To then run bioconda-utils from anywhere, start a pixi shell with that environment activated:

pixi shell -e dev

See the help for the bioconda-utils command-line interface for details:

bioconda-utils -h

Alternatively, you can also globally install bioconda-utils, adding it to your user's $PATH, with the global-install task:

pixi run global-install

Or use the Just wrappers around the Pixi tasks:

just global-install