# Installing stack and maf on El Capitan "Unable to find an acceptable version of \" **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Tags:** stack-install\ **Created:** [May 30, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/installing-stack-and-maf-on-el-capitan-unable-to-find-an-acceptable-version-of-package/1905 "2017-05-30T15:53:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/fed/32/43_2.png) [@fed](https://www.rubin.community/u/fed)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/installing-stack-and-maf-on-el-capitan-unable-to-find-an-acceptable-version-of-package/1905/1 "2017-05-30T15:53:14Z")
Using newinstall.sh and installing miniconda I keep running into “Unable to find an acceptable version of ” I am **reinstalling** the stack since my installation is old (and performing a new installation would put me in a better place to help members of my SC that are new at this). Nonetheless, I think I removed all old packages and env vars that I had installed previously and I reinstalled from scratch using newinstall.sh I am working on an empty dir and there are no LSST env variables lying around that I can tell. sequence of commands: curl -OL [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lsst/lsst/13.0/scripts/newinstall.sh](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lsst/lsst/13.0/scripts/newinstall.sh) source newinstall.sh source loadLSST.bash setup sims\_maf -t sims > Unable to find an acceptable version of sims" thank you for your help ---
**Author:** ![danielsf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/danielsf/32/440_2.png) [@danielsf](https://www.rubin.community/u/danielsf)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/installing-stack-and-maf-on-el-capitan-unable-to-find-an-acceptable-version-of-package/1905/2 "2017-05-30T16:24:15Z")
At what point in the process do you get the `Unable to find an acceptable veresion of ` error? When you run `eups distrib install ` or when you run `setup `? (sorry… I now see that you have answered this question) ---
**Author:** ![fed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/fed/32/43_2.png) [@fed](https://www.rubin.community/u/fed)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/installing-stack-and-maf-on-el-capitan-unable-to-find-an-acceptable-version-of-package/1905/3 "2017-05-30T16:25:47Z")
sorry - i edited the post (i got trigger happy w the return button) ---
**Author:** ![danielsf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/danielsf/32/440_2.png) [@danielsf](https://www.rubin.community/u/danielsf)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/installing-stack-and-maf-on-el-capitan-unable-to-find-an-acceptable-version-of-package/1905/4 "2017-05-30T16:27:40Z")
Running `source loadLSST.bash` sets up an LSST-friendly environment, but doesn’t actually install anything. You need to run `eups distrib install sims_maf -t sims` to actually install MAF on your computer. Then `setup sims_maf -t sims` ought to work. Note: installing MAF takes between 1 and 2 hours on a MacBook. ---
**Author:** ![danielsf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/danielsf/32/440_2.png) [@danielsf](https://www.rubin.community/u/danielsf)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 4:28pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/installing-stack-and-maf-on-el-capitan-unable-to-find-an-acceptable-version-of-package/1905/5 "2017-05-30T16:28:29Z")
So the sequence should be: ```auto curl -OL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lsst/lsst/13.0/scripts/newinstall.sh bash newinstall.sh source loadLSST.bash eups distrib install sims_maf -t sims setup sims_maf -t sims ``` (note: I do not think you should be running [newinstall.sh](http://newinstall.sh) with `source`. That has always gone poorly for me) ---
**Author:** ![fed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/fed/32/43_2.png) [@fed](https://www.rubin.community/u/fed)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/installing-stack-and-maf-on-el-capitan-unable-to-find-an-acceptable-version-of-package/1905/6 "2017-05-30T16:47:22Z")
sorry, edited: i did have that command in the sequence. eups distrib install sims\_maf -t sims I will try again without running [newinstall.sh](http://newinstall.sh) with source - I will be off for a few hours though so I’ll report back tonight ---
**Author:** ![danielsf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/danielsf/32/440_2.png) [@danielsf](https://www.rubin.community/u/danielsf)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/installing-stack-and-maf-on-el-capitan-unable-to-find-an-acceptable-version-of-package/1905/7 "2017-05-30T16:49:35Z")
If you still get the error, one thing to try would be ```auto eups list sims_maf ``` This will print to the screen a list of all of the versions of MAF that EUPS knows about. ---
**Author:** ![fed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/fed/32/43_2.png) [@fed](https://www.rubin.community/u/fed)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/installing-stack-and-maf-on-el-capitan-unable-to-find-an-acceptable-version-of-package/1905/8 "2017-05-30T16:53:13Z")
> [@danielsf](#): > > bash newinstall.sh ok, which version should I have? ( I was trying to parse the eups files to figure it out but it wasnt immediately obvious) ---
**Author:** ![danielsf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/danielsf/32/440_2.png) [@danielsf](https://www.rubin.community/u/danielsf)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 4:58pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/installing-stack-and-maf-on-el-capitan-unable-to-find-an-acceptable-version-of-package/1905/9 "2017-05-30T16:58:23Z")
I would expect the output from `eups list sims_maf` to include a line like this ```auto 2.3.5.sims+2 sims sims_2_3_5_1 ``` If you are still getting the error you reported, I would just be interested to see what `eups list sims_maf` produces, since the error you reported is consistent with not having MAF installed at all. I am not sure how versioning information on `newinstall.sh` is stored. I would not expect an out of date `newinstall.sh` to produce the bug you reported (I am working with a `newinstall.sh` that is at least a year old, and everything runs fine). ---
**Author:** ![RHL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/rhl/32/25_2.png) [@RHL](https://www.rubin.community/u/RHL)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/installing-stack-and-maf-on-el-capitan-unable-to-find-an-acceptable-version-of-package/1905/10 "2017-05-30T19:20:44Z")
`Unable to find an acceptable version of ` means that no version is current. Does `eups list ` show any versions? If so, try `setup ` and if that works you can make it the default (“current”) with `eups declare --current ` after which `setup ` will work. ---
**Author:** ![danielsf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/danielsf/32/440_2.png) [@danielsf](https://www.rubin.community/u/danielsf)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/installing-stack-and-maf-on-el-capitan-unable-to-find-an-acceptable-version-of-package/1905/11 "2017-05-30T19:49:59Z")
We try to avoid needing `current` for the sims stack. That is why we append the `-t sims` tag to every release we make, so that users can do `setup lsst_sims -t sims`. ---
**Author:** ![RHL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/rhl/32/25_2.png) [@RHL](https://www.rubin.community/u/RHL)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 8:29pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/installing-stack-and-maf-on-el-capitan-unable-to-find-an-acceptable-version-of-package/1905/12 "2017-05-30T20:29:56Z")
A user may well chose to set “current” locally. However, what I was explaining what the error about “acceptable versions” meant. ---
**Author:** ![ljones](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/ljones/32/1804_2.png) [@ljones](https://www.rubin.community/u/ljones)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/installing-stack-and-maf-on-el-capitan-unable-to-find-an-acceptable-version-of-package/1905/13 "2017-05-30T21:24:22Z")
@RHL Right - “no acceptable versions” shows up if BOTH no version is set as current AND you do not use a tag to set up the package. Because sims uses a different DM release than is usually marked as “current” for DM, we do not automatically mark a version current (and we don’t direct our users to either, because it’s easier to just tell them to use “-t sims” to set up each package). ---
**Author:** ![RHL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/rhl/32/25_2.png) [@RHL](https://www.rubin.community/u/RHL)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/installing-stack-and-maf-on-el-capitan-unable-to-find-an-acceptable-version-of-package/1905/14 "2017-05-30T21:36:02Z")
`-T current` is exactly equivalent to just accepting the default. You should really be using `-T sims` not `-t sims` to get the equivalent functionality.