illegal instruction & ValueError("Expected 'query_file' or 'query_ids', or 'query_profiles'")

[FranziNManchester]

Hello,

I would really like to use cblaster because it sounds so useful for what I'm trying to do. Unfortunately, I seem to struggle with it at nearly every step.

Firstly, when I stalled it via pip, I always get an error saying "illegal instruction", despite the installation being successful:

...

Successfully installed cblaster-1.3.19 (base) E-LOSX9MVQP:cblaster p91134fn$ cblaster config --email franziska.nagel@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk Illegal instruction: 4 (base) E-LOSX9MVQP:cblaster p91134fn$ cblaster -h Illegal instruction: 4 (base) E-LOSX9MVQP:cblaster p91134fn$ cblaster --help Illegal instruction: 4

I had more luck when I installed is using mamba as described here: https://bioconda.github.io/recipes/cblaster/README.html

So, for example, I successfully manages to create a database for a local search using makedb, although not entirely without error messages:

But when I then want to do a search, another set of errors comes up:

I've tried many variations of the code at this point but the program just doesn't seem to be working for me.

Can someone help? I would really like to use this program for a publication I am currently working on.

Many, many thanks in advance.

Best wishes,
Franziska