# How to silence database download message from Metaphlan 4.0.6 within Humann 3.8

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**Created:** [July 26, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/how-to-silence-database-download-message-from-metaphlan-4-0-6-within-humann-3-8/8303 "2025-07-26T13:52:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![lfreund](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.biobakery.org/lfreund/32/3046_2.png) [@lfreund](https://forum.biobakery.org/u/lfreund)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/how-to-silence-database-download-message-from-metaphlan-4-0-6-within-humann-3-8/8303/5 "2025-12-07T17:17:35Z")

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Can you please share how you formatted your code? I tried to include –metaphlan-options –offline, but this was not working for my code…(see [here](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/humann3-database-errors/8662/4)). Thank you so much!

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