Installation hanging

[holmescharles]

I am trying to install Spyking Circus on a new linux machine. I have installed miniconda 3 and followed the online installation instructions:

1. Set up a python 3.6 environment called "circus".
2. Activate the environment.
3. Install with conda install -c conda-forge -c spyking-circus spyking-circus.

The installation does not finish. Instead it hangs while solving the enviroment:

Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
Solving environment: failed with repodata from current_repodata.json, will retry with next repodata source.
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving environment: /  # last character is a spinner

This seems to hang indefinitely. I also tried the same instructions, but using Miniconda2 per the installation instructions. This seems to not hang, but only lets me install Spyking-Circus 0.9.*, not the latest stable version (1.1.0?). Any help or insight would be appreciated. Thanks!

[mmagnuski]

I also had this problem during installation, but after switching to mamba (from conda) the installation completed relatively quickly (around 3 - 4 minutes).