Intel Environments on M1/M2#
If you have an Macbook with the m1 or m2 chips, you might have found out some python libraries don’t work.
A work around, is via a conda environment with an intel architecture!
Example: Ambertools on m2 Macbook
Create a new conda environment and activate the environment
CONDA_SUBDIR=osx-64 conda create -n ambertools python=3.10
conda activate ambertools
Check the environment architecture with
python
python -c "import platform;print(platform.machine()) "
Change the architecture
conda env config vars set CONDA_SUBDIR=osx-64
Follow the instructions onscreen! Deactivate environment to set new configuration, then re-activate environment.
conda deactivate
conda activate ambertools
Now you can install Ambertools!
conda install -c conda-forge ambertools