Confusing error "Taxonomy::new() needs a path for a famdb file!" if h5py is not installed

[kuangtianhui]

Hi ! help!!! I run the RepeatMasker,the command is :~Software/RepeatMasker/RepeatMasker -parallel 10 -species "Rheum alexandrae" -html -gff -dir ~/1_WY_annotation/00Repreat_out/ ~/1_WY_annotation/00Repreat_out/WY_NDctf10k_NPsgsAndlgs_unmasked.fasta but get the erorr : Taxonomy::new() needs a path for a famdb file! my RepeatMasker is the latest version 4.1.1 and the RepBase is 2017

[kuangtianhui]

I solved it, because I have not install h5py module. Thanks!!!

[jebrosen]

That's definitely an unhelpful message; thank you for reporting it.

This problem should be detected and warned about in the configure program instead.

[kuangtianhui]

Thank you for your kind reply! Maybe is my fault, but I just install the h5py, and than this error did not occurred again.