# Transformers installation issue with conda

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**Created:** [April 5, 2022, 10:53am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Ftransformers-installation-issue-with-conda%2F16484 "2022-04-05T10:53:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![sssingh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/sssingh/32/19900_2.png) [@sssingh](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fsssingh)%5C
**Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 10:53am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Ftransformers-installation-issue-with-conda%2F16484%2F1 "2022-04-05T10:53:21Z")

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conda by default installing transformers 2.x however pip installs 4.x by default which is what I want but via conda.

If I install by specifying the latest distribution file from conda-forge…  
`conda install https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/transformers/4.16.2/download/noarch/transformers-4.16.2-pyhd8ed1ab_0.tar.bz2`

then it complains that environment is not consistent and list the package causing the issue which is PyTorch version 1.11.

I removed pytorch and then installed as listed above then installation go through. I then tried installing datasets…  
`conda install datasets`

Now it complains that environment is inconsistent due to transformers 4.16.2 that I installed.

Not sure whats wrong and how to install pytorch, transformers and datasets together with no issue.  
Do I need specific versions of these to make it work, could not find any such guideline on huggingface docs or support pages.

thanks.

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**Author:** ![sssingh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/sssingh/32/19900_2.png) [@sssingh](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fsssingh)%5C
**Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 7:10am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Ftransformers-installation-issue-with-conda%2F16484%2F2 "2022-04-09T07:10:21Z")

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This looks like python version dependency issue. Tried in a new blank environment and first package I tried to install was transformers … `conda install -c huggingface transformers` . This time it picked up `transformers version 4.x` and `python version 3.8x` . Now, if I first install `python 3.9.x` (which is default with miniconda) and then try to install transformer then it falls back to version 2.x. This tell me that in order to have version 4.x I need python version 3.8 or lower. This is not listed anywhere in huggingface installation page though.