# Can't update to 23.10.1 (from 23.10) from a pip install

**URL:** <https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/cant-update-to-23-10-1-from-23-10-from-a-pip-install/37568>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [November 23, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/cant-update-to-23-10-1-from-23-10-from-a-pip-install/37568 "2023-11-23T18:23:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![sudomain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@sudomain](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/sudomain)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/cant-update-to-23-10-1-from-23-10-from-a-pip-install/37568/1 "2023-11-23T18:23:05Z")

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I have Anki installed using pip according to the [Linux ARM64 instructions](https://betas.ankiweb.net/). This command should (and has in the past) upgrade Anki in the pyenv to the latest stable version:  
`pyenv/bin/pip install --upgrade aqt`

However, the pyenv remains at 23.10:

```auto
$pyenv/bin/anki --version
Preparing to run...
Anki 23.10

```

What’s odd is that pip knows of 23.10.1 and reports it as satisfied:

```auto
pyenv/bin/pip install --upgrade aqt
Requirement already satisfied: aqt in ./pyenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (23.10.1)                                                  
Requirement already satisfied: beautifulsoup4 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from aqt) (4.9.3) Requirement already satisfied: flask in ./pyenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aqt) (2.2.3) Requirement already satisfied: flask_cors in ./pyenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aqt) (3.0.10) Requirement already satisfied: jsonschema in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from aqt) (3.2.0) Requirement already satisfied: requests in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from aqt) (2.25.1) Requirement already satisfied: send2trash in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from aqt) (1.6.0b1) Requirement already satisfied: waitress>=2.0.0 in ./pyenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aqt) (2.1.2)
Requirement already satisfied: anki==23.10.1 in ./pyenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aqt) (23.10.1)
Requirement already satisfied: decorator in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from anki==23.10.1->aqt) (4.4.2)
Requirement already satisfied: markdown in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from anki==23.10.1->aqt) (3.3.4)
Requirement already satisfied: orjson in ./pyenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from anki==23.10.1->aqt) (3.8.7) Requirement already satisfied: protobuf>=4.21 in ./pyenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from anki==23.10.1->aqt) (4.22.1)
Requirement already satisfied: distro in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from anki==23.10.1->aqt) (1.5.0) Requirement already satisfied: soupsieve>1.2 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from beautifulsoup4->aqt) (2.2.1) Requirement already satisfied: Werkzeug>=2.2.2 in ./pyenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from flask->aqt) (2.2.3)
Requirement already satisfied: Jinja2>=3.0 in ./pyenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from flask->aqt) (3.1.2) Requirement already satisfied: itsdangerous>=2.0 in ./pyenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from flask->aqt) (2.1.2) Requirement already satisfied: click>=8.0 in ./pyenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from flask->aqt) (8.1.3) Requirement already satisfied: importlib-metadata>=3.6.0 in ./pyenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from flask->aqt) (6.0.0) Requirement already satisfied: Six in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from flask_cors->aqt) (1.16.0) Requirement already satisfied: zipp>=0.5 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from importlib-metadata>=3.6.0->flask->aqt) (1.0.0)
Requirement already satisfied: MarkupSafe>=2.0 in ./pyenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from Jinja2>=3.0->flask->aqt) (2.1.2)
Requirement already satisfied: PySocks!=1.5.7,>=1.5.6 in ./pyenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from requests[socks]->anki==23.10.1->aqt) (1.7.1)

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**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 5:10am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/cant-update-to-23-10-1-from-23-10-from-a-pip-install/37568/2 "2023-11-24T05:10:07Z")

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`pip install anki=23.10`, then `pip install --upgrade anki` works for me.

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**Author:** ![sudomain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@sudomain](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/sudomain)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/cant-update-to-23-10-1-from-23-10-from-a-pip-install/37568/3 "2023-11-24T16:26:29Z")

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23.10.1 is seen by pip based on:

```auto
$ ~/pyenv/bin/pip install --upgrade anki
Requirement already satisfied: anki in ./pyenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (23.10.1)

```

However only 23.10 gets run:

```auto
$ ~/pyenv/bin/anki --version Preparing to run...
Anki 23.10

```

With the new versioning system, if I run a patched version such as 23.10.1, will it report itself as 23.10?

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**Author:** ![figbay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f6c823/32.png) [@figbay](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/figbay)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/cant-update-to-23-10-1-from-23-10-from-a-pip-install/37568/4 "2023-11-25T19:42:26Z")

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Works fine for me (installing from pip). And no:

```bash
$ anki --version
Preparing to run...
Anki 23.10.1

```

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**Author:** ![sudomain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@sudomain](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/sudomain)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/cant-update-to-23-10-1-from-23-10-from-a-pip-install/37568/5 "2023-11-25T20:05:52Z")

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Thanks all, but no longer an issue- I was able to reinstall Anki in Debian 12 in Termux/PRoot. I had been previously been using a backup of Debian 11 due to [being plagued by a segmentation fault](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/help-fixing-an-anki-install-on-debian-11/32997/8) but that also seems to be resolved now. I’m happy to now be on the Qt6 build now as well

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/cant-update-to-23-10-1-from-23-10-from-a-pip-install/37568/6 "2023-12-25T20:06:22Z")

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