Unable to install ont-tombo via condo and pip

[skranz0]

I want to compare multiple epigenetic tools and many of them require Tombo. Every installation tells my to install with either pip install ont-tombo or conda install -c bioconda ont-tombo. Neither way works.
The pip installation ends with
ERROR: Could not build wheels for ont-tombo, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
The condo installation gives me

UnsatisfiableError: The following specifications were found to be incompatible with the existing python installation in your environment: 

Specifications: 

- ont-tombo -> python[version='2.7.*|3.5.*|3.6.*|>=2.7,<2.8.0a0|>=3.6,<3.7.0a0|>=3.7,<3.8.0a0|>=3.5,<3.6.0a0']                                                                                          

Your python: python=3.8

If python is on the left-most side of the chain, that's the version you've asked for.                                                        
When python appears to the right, that indicates that the thing on the left is somehow not available for the python version you are constrained to. Note that conda will not change your python version to a different minor version unless you explicitly specify that.
   
The following specifications were found to be incompatible with your system:
   
  - feature:/linux-64::__glibc==2.35=0                              
  - ont-tombo -> libgcc-ng[version='>=7.5.0'] -> __glibc[version='>=2.17']                                                        
  - python=3.8 -> libgcc-ng[version='>=10.3.0'] -> __glibc[version='>=2.17']

Your installed version is: 2.35

Python 3.8 is what the installation script of the tools want me to use. And to my understanding, that should satisfy >=3.7,<3.8.0a0

[GuardSkill]

same

[skranz0]

Thanks to a thread on Reddit, I learned tombo requires Python 3.6, even though the tools I'm trying to use state 3.8 in their install guides. With the downgraded Python mamba install -c bioconda ont-tombo is successfull though.
As one comment suggested, it might be reasonable to create an extra 3.6 environment just for tombo.

[marcus1487]

Tombo is deprecated. I would recommend trying to update pipelines to use Remora if possible.

[keenhl]

@skranz0 Thanks for the suggestion. I had been trying unsuccessfully to get tombo installed with different versions of Python, with conda install, and with pip install, and nothing worked. With Python 3.6 and the mamba install, it worked.