Refer to hardware requirements for this software: 250 GB of RAM!!!!
Currently, version 1.7 + R202
cd ~/Downloads
conda create -n gtdbtk -c conda-forge -c bioconda gtdbtk
wget https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/blob/master/recipes/gtdbtk/download-db.sh
sudo chmod +x ./download-db.sh
./download-db.sh
rm -f ./download-db.sh
1.4.1 + R95
cd ~/Downloads
conda create -n gtdbtk-1.4 -c conda-forge -c bioconda gtdbtk=1.4
conda activate gtdbtk-1.4
# make sure it is not pointing to the freshest installation
echo ${GTDBTK_DATA_PATH}
wget https://data.gtdb.ecogenomic.org/releases/release95/95.0/auxillary_files/gtdbtk_r95_data.tar.gz
tar xvzf gtdbtk_r95_data.tar.gz -C ${GTDBTK_DATA_PATH} --strip 1
rm ./gtdbtk_r95_data.tar.gz
conda deactivate