I am running hichipper for the first time and I run into this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/users/mbeato/rferrari/.local/bin/hichipper", line 11, in
load_entry_point('hichipper==0.7.9', 'console_scripts', 'hichipper')()
File "/software/as/el7.2/EasyBuild/CRG/software/Python/3.8.2-GCCcore-9.3.0/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 489, in load_entry_point
return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
File "/software/as/el7.2/EasyBuild/CRG/software/Python/3.8.2-GCCcore-9.3.0/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2852, in load_entry_point
return ep.load()
File "/software/as/el7.2/EasyBuild/CRG/software/Python/3.8.2-GCCcore-9.3.0/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2443, in load
return self.resolve()
File "/software/as/el7.2/EasyBuild/CRG/software/Python/3.8.2-GCCcore-9.3.0/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2449, in resolve
module = import(self.module_name, fromlist=['name'], level=0)
File "/users/mbeato/rferrari/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/hichipper-0.7.9-py3.8.egg/hichipper/cli.py", line 136
if make_ucsc or make_washu:
^
TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation

what is this about?

Thanks a lot in advance.

R