# \`cwl-runner\` when installing \`cwltool\` via conda

**URL:** <https://cwl.discourse.group/t/cwl-runner-when-installing-cwltool-via-conda/639>\
**Category:** CWL Questions\
**Created:** [August 25, 2022, 11:12am UTC](https://cwl.discourse.group/t/cwl-runner-when-installing-cwltool-via-conda/639 "2022-08-25T11:12:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![elehcim](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/cwl.discourse.group/elehcim/32/328_2.png) [@elehcim](https://cwl.discourse.group/u/elehcim)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 11:12am UTC](https://cwl.discourse.group/t/cwl-runner-when-installing-cwltool-via-conda/639/1 "2022-08-25T11:12:25Z")

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Hello,  
I installed cwltool in a conda environment, using `mamba install cwltool -c conda-forge`.  
It seems there’s no way to install `cwl-runner` via conda, am I right?

What is the best way to go in order to add this possibility? Adding an entrypoint to `cwl-runner` [here](https://github.com/conda-forge/cwltool-feedstock/blob/7640f7725c13c5b2c16be1c1037723dc5d9c761f/recipe/meta.yaml#L16)?  
Or using the cwlref-runner from [here](https://github.com/common-workflow-language/cwltool/tree/main/cwlref-runner)?

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Heffer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/cwl.discourse.group/joe_heffer/32/325_2.png) [@Joe\_Heffer](https://cwl.discourse.group/u/Joe_Heffer)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 8:53am UTC](https://cwl.discourse.group/t/cwl-runner-when-installing-cwltool-via-conda/639/2 "2022-08-30T08:53:19Z")

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Hi,  
It looks like the package is misnamed on Conda Forge:  
[https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/cwl\_runner](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/cwl_runner)  
The package name has an underscore rather than a hypen.

There’s also this package: [Cwlref Runner :: Anaconda.org](https://anaconda.org/brittainhard/cwlref-runner)

I installed this as follows (on Windows):

```auto
mamba create -n cwl -c conda-forge cwltool cwl_runner
mamba activate cwl
cwltool --version
C:\Users\myusername\Miniconda3\envs\cwl\Scripts\cwltool 3.0.20210319143721
cwl-runner --version
C:\Users\myusername\Miniconda3\envs\cwl\Scripts\cwl-runner 3.0.20210319143721

```

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**Author:** ![mrc](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/cwl.discourse.group/mrc/32/3_2.png) [@mrc](https://cwl.discourse.group/u/mrc)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://cwl.discourse.group/t/cwl-runner-when-installing-cwltool-via-conda/639/3 "2022-09-07T22:42:00Z")

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FYI, `cwltool` no longer supports running under MS Windows. Please install using WSL2 to get a much newer and better version of `cwltool`: [https://github.com/common-workflow-language/cwltool#ms-windows-users](https://github.com/common-workflow-language/cwltool#ms-windows-users)