Dropbox Error with Metaphlan while running tutorial for Humann

Metaphlan 3.0

I encountered the following error message while running the tutorial for the Humann.

Following is the command i used and the error message.

humann --input demo.fastq.gz --output demo_fastq --nucleotide-database /scratch/user/sal/Humann_projects/humann_dbs/chocophl
an --protein-database /scratch/user/sal/Humann_projects/humann_dbs/uniref
Output files will be written to: /scratch/user/sal/Humann_projects/Tutorials/humann3/input/demo_fastq
Decompressing gzipped file …
Running metaphlan …
CRITICAL ERROR: Error executing: /scratch/user/sal/.conda/envs/Salenv/bin/metaphlan /scratch/user/sal/Humann_projects/Tutorials/humann3/input/demo_fastq/
demo_humann_temp/tmpal5xx8vc/tmp295_lrf4 -t rel_ab -o /scratch/user/sal/Humann_projects/Tutorials/humann3/input/demo_fastq/demo_humann_temp/demo_metaphla
n_bugs_list.tsv --input_type fastq --bowtie2out /scratch/user/sal/Humann_projects/Tutorials/humann3/input/demo_fastq/demo_humann_temp/demo_metaphlan_bowt
ie2.txt
Error message returned from metaphlan :
Downloading https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7qze7m7g9fe2xjg/AAA4XDP85WHon_eHvztxkamTa/file_list.txt?dl=1
Warning: Unable to download https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7qze7m7g9fe2xjg/AAA4XDP85WHon_eHvztxkamTa/file_list.txt?dl=1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/scratch/user/sal/.conda/envs/Salenv/bin/metaphlan”, line 10, in
sys.exit(main())
File “/scratch/user/sal/.conda/envs/Salenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/metaphlan/metaphlan.py”, line 1187, in main
pars[‘index’] = check_and_install_database(pars[‘index’], pars[‘bowtie2db’], pars[‘bowtie2_build’], pars[‘nproc’], pars[‘force_download’])
File “/scratch/user/sal/.conda/envs/Salenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/metaphlan/metaphlan.py”, line 589, in check_and_install_database
index = resolve_latest_database(bowtie2_db, ls_f[‘mpa_latest’], force_redownload_latest)
UnboundLocalError: local variable ‘ls_f’ referenced before assignment

Hello, Thank you for the detailed post. If you update your MetaPhlAn install to the latest version, it should resolve the errors you are seeing.

Thank you,
Lauren