Converting fastq.gz to fasta. Having trouble installing ShortReads (Bioconductor) - r

Question

I'm currently trying to use readFastq with the ShortRead library. I have specified the version of Bioconductor I need (3.14) in order to run it in R version 4.1 (which is the one I'm currently using). I keep getting an error message saying:
> library(ShortRead)
Error in library(Shortread) : there is no package called 'ShortRead'
and also:
ln: failed to create symbolic link 'libhts.so.2': Operation not supported
make: *** [Makevars:28: populate-usrlib-dir] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘Rhtslib’
* removing ‘/home/jovyan/work/__dag_config__/R/libs/Rhtslib’
ERROR: dependency ‘Rhtslib’ is not available for package ‘Rsamtools’
* removing ‘/home/jovyan/work/__dag_config__/R/libs/Rsamtools’
ERROR: dependency ‘Rsamtools’ is not available for package ‘GenomicAlignments’
* removing ‘/home/jovyan/work/__dag_config__/R/libs/GenomicAlignments’
ERROR: dependencies ‘Rsamtools’, ‘GenomicAlignments’, ‘Rhtslib’ are not available for package ‘ShortRead’
* removing ‘/home/jovyan/work/__dag_config__/R/libs/ShortRead’
and
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘textshaping’
* removing ‘/opt/conda/envs/r/lib/R/library/textshaping’
* restoring previous ‘/opt/conda/envs/r/lib/R/library/textshaping’
* installing *source* package ‘ragg’ ...
** package ‘ragg’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
and lastly
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘ragg’
* removing ‘/opt/conda/envs/r/lib/R/library/ragg’
* restoring previous ‘/opt/conda/envs/r/lib/R/library/ragg’
The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmpgByRyT/downloaded_packages’
I would really appreciate som help with troubleshooting this or a "smarter" way to convert fastq.gz files to fasta files
The commands I've run so far are:
#Installing ShortRead package containing the readFastq function
if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install(version="3.14")
BiocManager::install("GenomeInfoDbData")
BiocManager::install("GenomeInfoDb")
BiocManager::install("ShortRead")
#Loading the library
library(ShortRead)
Some extra session information:
> sessionInfo()
R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10)
Platform: x86_64-conda-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Matrix products: default
BLAS/LAPACK: /opt/conda/envs/r/lib/libopenblasp-r0.3.21.so
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
[4] LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] BiocManager_1.30.19
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.1.1 fastmap_1.1.0 cli_3.4.1 htmltools_0.5.3 tools_4.1.1
[6] rstudioapi_0.14 yaml_2.3.6 rmarkdown_2.17 knitr_1.40 xfun_0.34
[11] digest_0.6.30 rlang_1.0.6 evaluate_0.17
I do not understand why it won't install. I would it expect it to work when I have made sure to use the correct version