# Can not install blast package **URL:** \ **Category:** Packages & Environments\ **Created:** [February 17, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/can-not-install-blast-package/92512 "2025-02-17T21:13:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SnnWSooj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/00a5b5/32.png) [@SnnWSooj](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/SnnWSooj)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/can-not-install-blast-package/92512/1 "2025-02-17T21:13:31Z")
Hello, I meet a question that I can not download the blast package in my virtual environment. There is no available channel for me to download the blast package. After I type the command “conda install blast”, the screenshot of my terminal is as followings: ![Screenshot 2025-02-17 at 16.12.47](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/anaconda/original/2X/f/f32215b14bb33cd0f55df24242b58c76720b3506.png) Thank you for checking this. ---
**Author:** ![mmonroe](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/anaconda/user_avatar/forum.anaconda.com/mmonroe/32/5462_2.png) [@mmonroe](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/mmonroe)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/can-not-install-blast-package/92512/2 "2025-03-03T19:04:10Z")
Hello, Thank you for your questions. Looking at the channels you are trying to pull from, I can determine that your system is a MacOS computer operating system with an ARM64 chip. Looking at the Blast package on Bioconda’s channel in the link below. They only support packages that are for linux-64, MacOS Intel 64, and linux-aarch64. [https://anaconda.org/bioconda/blast](https://anaconda.org/bioconda/blast) I did however find a package called blast-legacy that might be a good alternative to used. I will include the package information below from [Anaconda.org](http://Anaconda.org). Let me know if you have any questions. [https://anaconda.org/bioconda/blast-legacy](https://anaconda.org/bioconda/blast-legacy)