# Up and running with sims\_maf\_contrib

**URL:** <https://www.rubin.community/t/up-and-running-with-sims-maf-contrib/383>\
**Category:** Simulations\
**Tags:** maf, conda, stack-install\
**Created:** [November 12, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/up-and-running-with-sims-maf-contrib/383 "2015-11-12T18:43:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 10:02am UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/up-and-running-with-sims-maf-contrib/383/6 "2015-12-26T10:02:08Z")

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> [@ljones](#):
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> However - is the right channel conda/stable or conda/dev? I think @danielsf the other day said it should be /dev for sims items (stable for DM) because we are post-v11 for sims and conda/stable is only at v11.

You’re right, the `stable` channel right now includes only the `v11` (aka Summer 2015) releases (both of DM and sims code). I think @danielsf has been publishing more recent versions onto `dev`, though they may behave inconsistently in updates due to recent [changes](http://www.rubin.community/t/what-is-the-current-versioning-scheme/459) to how versions are computed. I think you should be safe, as long as you always do `conda update conda update lsst-sims` (as it’s never been tagged, I use a different algorithm to compute its version so it remained unaffected).

PS: I 100% agree it’d be good to have one, canonical, place with install instructions.

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