Installation fails: `requirements.txt` contains system-specific build strings and broken dependencies

[aliciusschroeder]

Description

I attempted to set up the environment using the instructions in the README, but conda create fails. The current requirements.txt file appears to be a raw dump of a specific user's environment (conda list --export), which includes:

1. System-specific build strings (e.g., h14c3975_1002) that are incompatible with other OS versions or architectures.
2. pypi_0 tags which conda cannot resolve directly.
3. opencv requirements that cause ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'cv2' or shared library errors (libGL.so.1) on fresh Linux installs.

Steps to Reproduce

1. git clone https://github.com/zhenglab/CAML.git
2. conda create --name caml --file requirements.txt

Error Log

LibMambaUnsatisfiableError: Encountered problems while solving:
...
package ... h14c3975_1002 does not exist

Suggested Fix

I have successfully reconstructed the environment by cleaning the version tags and switching to a hybrid Conda/Pip setup. I will open a PR shortly with a cross-platform environment.yml.

[Haoru]

Thanks for pointing this out — you’re absolutely right. The current requirements.txt is a raw environment export and is not portable across platforms. This is an oversight on our side.
We really appreciate you reconstructing a cross-platform Conda/Pip setup and opening a PR. We will review it carefully and merge it accordingly. Thanks for the contribution!