Hello all,

I am trying to install msbwt (https://github.com/holtjma/msbwt) on a WSL so that I can then use FMLRC (https://github.com/holtjma/fmlrc). Although msbwt recommends that it be installed with easy_install that package management software seems to be deprecated. Given that it's seemingly available with pip I attempted to use it to install msbwt, however I kept getting the following errors (the whole message is long, so I'll have it in a comment, but here's the gist):

pip install msbwt
Collecting msbwt
  Using cached msbwt-0.3.0.tar.gz (1.9 MB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Requirement already satisfied: pysam in /mnt/c/ultimate/other_software/miniconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from msbwt) (0.18.0)
Requirement already satisfied: numpy in /mnt/c/ultimate/other_software/miniconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from msbwt) (1.21.5)
Building wheels for collected packages: msbwt
  Building wheel for msbwt (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /mnt/c/ultimate/other_software/miniconda3/bin/python -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z67t275r/msbwt_33b8b18c49004572b0dffbc821bac183/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z67t275r/msbwt_33b8b18c49004572b0dffbc821bac183/setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-rxycpizo
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-z67t275r/msbwt_33b8b18c49004572b0dffbc821bac183/

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ERROR: Failed building wheel for msbwt
  Running setup.py clean for msbwt
Failed to build msbwt
Installing collected packages: msbwt
    Running setup.py install for msbwt ... error
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /mnt/c/ultimate/other_software/miniconda3/bin/python -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z67t275r/msbwt_33b8b18c49004572b0dffbc821bac183/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z67t275r/msbwt_33b8b18c49004572b0dffbc821bac183/setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-hx_1kqas/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /mnt/c/ultimate/other_software/miniconda3/include/python3.9/msbwt
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-z67t275r/msbwt_33b8b18c49004572b0dffbc821bac183/

... (Again another 238 lines of output)

Let me know if anything needs more clarification - I am very new to the field (I am an undergraduate doing research with my professor!) Thanks all for your help!