Could not create conda environment

[PeterWang0502]

Hi, thanks for creating this tool. I've been having trouble running the program after installing it. Each time I tried to run it, snakemake returned with errors indicating that the conda environment could not be property created.
The error log looked like this:
Building DAG of jobs...
Creating conda environment envs/bwa_map_KOunt.yaml...
Downloading and installing remote packages.
CreateCondaEnvironmentException:
Could not create conda environment from /project/xxxxxxxxx/tools/KOunt/envs/bwa_map_KOunt.yaml:
Command:
mamba env create --quiet --file "~/.snakemake/conda/093e49f05ee424113385ef74c7e4b7d1_.yaml" --prefix "~/.snakemake/conda/093e49f05ee424113385ef74c7e4b7d1_"
Output:
error libmamba Non-conda folder exists at prefix - aborting.
critical libmamba Non-conda folder exists at prefix - aborting.
I tried to create the conda environment directly and it worked, so it's unlikely issues from yaml files. I also attached my code for running snakemake below:
snakemake -j 5 -k --ri --use-conda --conda-prefix ~/.snakemake/conda --cluster-config cluster.json --cluster "bsub -q normal -n {cluster.core} -M {cluster.vmem} -W {cluster.time}"
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[jmattock5]

Hello, thank you for using KOunt! Please could you try to install the conda environments before running Snakemake with this command to see if that solves your issue?

conda activate snakemake_mamba
snakemake --conda-create-envs-only --cores 1 --use-conda

Thanks,
Jenny