Problems installing qiime2

[Joseph (Tintelnot)]

Dear Community,
I´m a qiime2 beginner and probably have a stupid problem, but I tried to install qiime2 through conda as explained in the qiime2 docs and get the following syntax error:

conda update conda
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: done

All requested packages already installed.

Note: you may need to restart the kernel to use updated packages.

conda install wget
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: done

All requested packages already installed.

Note: you may need to restart the kernel to use updated packages.

> wget https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2021.11-py38-osx-conda.yml
** File "", line 1**
** wget https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2021.11-py38-osx-conda.yml**
** ^**
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Thank you very much in advance.
Joseph

[thermokarst (Matthew Ryan Dillon)]

Hi there @Joseph, sorry to hear you're running into issues. Can you possibly send a screenshot of this issue? It would help contextualize this message for us (it looks like our forum software formatted your error message, I can't tell what is part of the original message and what is from the formatting). There is no strict requirement that you use wget to download that environment file - you could also copy-and-paste the URL into your browser and download the file that way - its totally up to you.