Outdated libstdc++ (GCC) standard library when installing from bioconda (as per instructions)

[kalasNTY]

Tried to install clippy as per instructions here but get below error code. I have setup a fresh VM ubuntu server (x86_64 architecture) via UTM prior to installing conda and clippy.

The problem is that the bioconda distribution is using an outdated GCC library needed for scipy. Means that my newly setup system’s libstdc++.so.6 (standard C++ library) is too old, but scipy requires a newer version compiled with GLIBCXX_3.4.30 (from GCC ≥ 10.3). Hence if you run into that issue you need to

conda activate clippy
conda install -c conda-forge libstdcxx-ng

This resolved the issue for me

Original error message:
_Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/julian/miniconda3/envs/clippy/bin/clippy", line 6, in
from clip import main
File "/home/julian/miniconda3/envs/clippy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/clip/init.py", line 2, in
import scipy.signal as sig
File "/home/julian/miniconda3/envs/clippy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/scipy/signal/init.py", line 309, in
from . import _sigtools, windows
File "/home/julian/miniconda3/envs/clippy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/scipy/signal/windows/init.py", line 41, in
from ._windows import *
File "/home/julian/miniconda3/envs/clippy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/scipy/signal/windows/_windows.py", line 7, in
from scipy import linalg, special, fft as sp_fft
File "/home/julian/miniconda3/envs/clippy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/scipy/fft/init.py", line 91, in
from ._helper import next_fast_len
File "/home/julian/miniconda3/envs/clippy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/scipy/fft/_helper.py", line 3, in
from ._pocketfft import helper as _helper
File "/home/julian/miniconda3/envs/clippy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/scipy/fft/_pocketfft/init.py", line 3, in
from .basic import *
File "/home/julian/miniconda3/envs/clippy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/scipy/fft/_pocketfft/basic.py", line 6, in
from . import pypocketfft as pfft
ImportError: /home/julian/miniconda3/envs/clippy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/scipy/linalg/../../../../libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.30' not found (required by /home/julian/miniconda3/envs/clippy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/scipy/fft/pocketfft/pypocketfft.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so)