EDTA v2.3.1 : --type flag not recognized

[Mtsrn0]

Running via the Singularity container, when trying to use the --type flag, there is an error that --type is an unknown option.

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##### Extensive de-novo TE Annotator (EDTA) v2.3.1  #####
##### Shujun Ou (shujun.ou.1@gmail.com)             #####
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Parameters: --genome /scratch/workspace/matthew_sharon_student_uml_edu-summer/sb_files/GCF_964276395.1_fGasAcu3.hap1.1_genomic.shortnames.fna --cds /scratch/workspace/matthew_sharon_student_uml_edu-summer/sb_files/GCF_964276395.1_fGasAcu3.hap1.1.CDS.fna --curatedlib /scratch/workspace/matthew_sharon_student_uml_edu-summer/sb_files/Gasterosteus_aculeatus_transposon_library.fa --sensitive 1 --anno 1 --evaluate 1 --overwrite 1 --type ltr --threads 4


Unknown option: type
Failed to parse command line

I earlier used this command without the --type flag and the program loads and begins running

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##### Extensive de-novo TE Annotator (EDTA) v2.3.1  #####
##### Shujun Ou (shujun.ou.1@gmail.com)             #####
#########################################################


Parameters: --genome /scratch/workspace/matthew_sharon_student_uml_edu-summer/sb_files/GCF_964276395.1_fGasAcu3.hap1.1_genomic.shortnames.fna --cds /scratch/workspace/matthew_sharon_student_uml_edu-summer/sb_files/GCF_964276395.1_fGasAcu3.hap1.1.CDS.fna --curatedlib /scratch/workspace/matthew_sharon_student_uml_edu-summer/sb_files/Gasterosteus_aculeatus_transposon_library.fa --sensitive 1 --anno 1 --evaluate 1 --overwrite 1 --threads 4


Sun Jul 12 05:45:40 UTC 2026	Dependency checking:
	All passed!

Sun Jul 12 05:46:28 UTC 2026	Cleaning and normalizing sequence IDs...
No encoding needed — all 129 IDs fit within id_len_max=12 (longest scaffold: 36158614 bp)
	Sequence IDs are short enough, no encoding needed.

	A custom library /scratch/workspace/matthew_sharon_student_uml_edu-summer/sb_files/Gasterosteus_aculeatus_transposon_library.fa is provided via --curatedlib. Please make sure this is a manually curated library but not machine generated.

	A CDS file /scratch/workspace/matthew_sharon_student_uml_edu-summer/sb_files/GCF_964276395.1_fGasAcu3.hap1.1.CDS.fna is provided via --cds. Please make sure this is the DNA sequence of coding regions only.