# Problems installing qiime2
**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/problems-installing-qiime2/21515
**Category:** Technical Support
**Created:** [November 29, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/problems-installing-qiime2/21515 "2021-11-29T15:24:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Joseph](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Joseph)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/problems-installing-qiime2/21515/1 "2021-11-29T15:24:34Z")
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](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](https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2021.11-py38-osx-conda.yml)\*\*
\*\* ^\*\*
**SyntaxError: invalid syntax**
Thank you very much in advance.
Joseph
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### Author:  [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/problems-installing-qiime2/21515/2 "2021-11-30T15:45:36Z")
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### Author:  [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/problems-installing-qiime2/21515/3 "2021-11-30T15:47:20Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/problems-installing-qiime2/21515/4 "2021-11-30T15:47:23Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/problems-installing-qiime2/21515/5 "2021-12-31T21:48:16Z")
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