# Errors updating Metaphlan

**URL:** <https://forum.biobakery.org/t/errors-updating-metaphlan/4825>\
**Category:** MetaPhlAn\
**Created:** [February 20, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/errors-updating-metaphlan/4825 "2023-02-20T14:18:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Krupa-17](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.biobakery.org/krupa-17/32/1968_2.png) [@Krupa-17](https://forum.biobakery.org/u/Krupa-17)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/errors-updating-metaphlan/4825/1 "2023-02-20T14:18:48Z")

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Hello,

I have been having a lot of issues downloading metaphlan and have used mamba to install it instead using the command below  
mamba create -y -n metaphlan -c conda-forge -c bioconda -c defaults python=3.7 metaphlan

Now in order to combine it with HUMANN I need to be able to use the offline tag otherwise the error regarding the dropbox continues and have already downloaded the resources from the google drive and run it. The version I currently have using the command above is 3.0.

The error I get when I run metaphlan -install in my environment is this

Downloading [https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7qze7m7g9fe2xjg/AAA4XDP85WHon\_eHvztxkamTa/file\_list.txt?dl=1](https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7qze7m7g9fe2xjg/AAA4XDP85WHon_eHvztxkamTa/file_list.txt?dl=1)

Warning: Unable to download [https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7qze7m7g9fe2xjg/AAA4XDP85WHon\_eHvztxkamTa/file\_list.txt?dl=1](https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7qze7m7g9fe2xjg/AAA4XDP85WHon_eHvztxkamTa/file_list.txt?dl=1)  
Traceback (most recent call last):

Is there a way for me to download the updated version of Metaphlan using mamba?

Thank you,  
Krupa

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**Author:** ![aitor.blancomiguez](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.biobakery.org/aitor.blancomiguez/32/86_2.png) [@aitor.blancomiguez](https://forum.biobakery.org/u/aitor.blancomiguez)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/errors-updating-metaphlan/4825/2 "2023-02-21T13:46:19Z")

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Hi @Krupa-17  
It seems you are trying to pull an old version of metaphlan 3.0 that still uses the Dropbox download that is currently deprecated. Please, try to upload to the latest metaphlan 3.0 version available 3.0.14, to 3.1 or even to the lastest version 4