# Renku CLI Conda install instructions

**URL:** <https://renku.discourse.group/t/renku-cli-conda-install-instructions/238>\
**Category:** Renku (CLI)\
**Created:** [21 January 2021 20:14 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/renku-cli-conda-install-instructions/238 "2021-01-21T20:14:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![champost](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/renku.discourse.group/champost/32/232_2.png) [@champost](https://renku.discourse.group/u/champost)\
**Post date:** [21 January 2021 20:14 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/renku-cli-conda-install-instructions/238/1 "2021-01-21T20:14:05Z")

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Hello,

Would you agree with me that the [Renku CLI Conda install instructions](https://renku.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/cli-installation.html#installing-from-source) unnecessarily assume that there is no existing environment with `renku` as part of their name ?

This is due to the `$(conda env list | grep renku | awk '{print $2}')` part of the install command right after having created an environment named `renku`. The below illustrates my point :

> champost@SIT:~$ conda env list | grep renku  
> minimal-renku-env /home/champost/miniconda3/envs/minimal-renku-env  
> renku /home/champost/miniconda3/envs/renku

This can however be remedied by adding a single space within single quotes while “grepping” which becomes `$(conda env list | grep 'renku ' | awk '{print $2}')`

> champost@SIT:~$ conda env list | grep 'renku ’  
> renku /home/champost/miniconda3/envs/renku

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**Author:** ![cramakri](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/renku.discourse.group/cramakri/32/7_2.png) [@cramakri](https://renku.discourse.group/u/cramakri)\
**Post date:** [22 January 2021 10:07 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/renku-cli-conda-install-instructions/238/2 "2021-01-22T10:07:03Z")

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Great suggestion, thanks!

~~I have made a PR to incorporate this: [docs: fix conda installation instructions by ciyer · Pull Request #1876 · SwissDataScienceCenter/renku · GitHub](https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku/pull/1876)~~  
I see you already made a PR for this, which is even better. [Update cli-installation.rst by champost · Pull Request #1872 · SwissDataScienceCenter/renku · GitHub](https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku/pull/1872)

Let us move the discussion there.