# Conda install of biobb\_md stalls
**URL:** https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/conda-install-of-biobb-md-stalls/2585
**Category:** BioBB
**Created:** [November 19, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/conda-install-of-biobb-md-stalls/2585 "2020-11-19T16:01:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@hjuinj](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/u/hjuinj)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/conda-install-of-biobb-md-stalls/2585/1 "2020-11-19T16:01:48Z")
I tried to conda install biobb\_md with the command in the documentation:
`conda install -c bioconda "biobb_md>=3.0.1"` but this just stalls at “solving environment”
I tried to just do `conda install -c bioconda biobb_md`. i.e. without the version number, this works but the according to the conda message the version I get is actually biobb\_md-0.1.5
Does anyone else have this problem and how should I resolve this? Thanks
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### Author:  [@adam.hospital](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/u/adam.hospital)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/conda-install-of-biobb-md-stalls/2585/2 "2020-11-19T16:17:09Z")
Hi, as these packages are dependent on Python version \>=3.7, could you please check the Python version of the environment where you are trying to install the biobb\_md package? You can also try to install it in a new environment to see if the issue is related to the already existing environment.
Thanks for your interest in our library!
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### Author:  [@hjuinj](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/u/hjuinj)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/conda-install-of-biobb-md-stalls/2585/3 "2020-11-19T16:20:24Z")
the result above was from trying to install in a newly created conda environment with python 3.9.0
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### Author:  [@adam.hospital](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/u/adam.hospital)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/conda-install-of-biobb-md-stalls/2585/4 "2020-11-19T16:21:59Z")
That’s interesting. Could you please try it with a newly created conda environment with Python 3.7?
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### Author:  [@genis.bayarri](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/u/genis.bayarri)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/conda-install-of-biobb-md-stalls/2585/5 "2020-11-19T17:54:54Z")
Hi, as you are trying to install biobb’s with a recently released python version, I would reccomend you to try with a less recent one.
But it’s not necessary to create a new environment by your own. Please follow the next steps to do it automatically from a YAML file:
- Create new yaml environment file (i.e. test.yml):
name: biobb\_test
channels:
- conda-forge
- bioconda
dependencies:
- python
- biobb\_md==3.0.1
- conda
- Create new environment with this file:
conda env create -f test.yml
- Activate environment:
conda activate biobb\_test
- Check that you have the last biobb\_md version installed in this environment:
conda list
Kind regards
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### Author:  [@genis.bayarri](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/u/genis.bayarri)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/conda-install-of-biobb-md-stalls/2585/6 "2020-11-19T18:04:26Z")
Hi, I’m sorry, it seems that the editor played a trick on me. I will try again with a link to the yml file):
- Create new yaml environment file: [test.yml](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y6vqDbcQzH9Qenfq0AJM8MxVrJ-osjOT7gw7MW_4iOw/edit?usp=sharing)
- Create new environment with this file: conda env create -f test.yml
- Activate environment: conda activate biobb\_test
- Check that you have the last biobb\_md version installet in this environment: conda list
Best
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### Author:  [@hjuinj](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/u/hjuinj)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/conda-install-of-biobb-md-stalls/2585/7 "2020-11-19T18:22:26Z")
sorry it took so long, my conda env is becoming too messy and I had quite some verification errors while installing to new environment. so spent quite some time to clean in order to make sure things are right.
So yeah I think with python 3.7(.8) I could successfully install the package. Three questions:
- after importing biobb\_md how can I check its version? I tried biobb\_md. **version**
- what dependency was required so lower python3 versions cannot be supported?
- I saw that the gromacs from bioconda was also installed as a dependency. I would like to use biobb\_md on the cluster with already installed version of gromacs, is that possible and if so how do I do that?
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### Author:  [@hjuinj](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/u/hjuinj)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/conda-install-of-biobb-md-stalls/2585/8 "2020-11-19T18:23:30Z")
hi sorry I just saw your messages, I think I managed to install the md building block now, thank you for your explainations 🙂