# Cmake error while installing Pygplates

**URL:** https://discourse.gplates.org/t/cmake-error-while-installing-pygplates/351
**Category:** Q&A
**Created:** [28 July 2021 19:10 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/cmake-error-while-installing-pygplates/351 "2021-07-28T19:10:58Z")
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### Author: ![john.cannon](https://discourse.gplates.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3e96dc/32.png) [@john.cannon](https://discourse.gplates.org/u/john.cannon)
#### Post date: [30 July 2021 03:37 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/cmake-error-while-installing-pygplates/351/9 "2021-07-30T03:37:36Z")

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> [@thor524](#):
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> Still, I get the boost error while running cmake.

It’s getting a bit further this time, it’s finding conda’s version of boost now (but only the boost headers, not the libraries).

I had this working on Ubuntu 20.04, but I’ll try Ubuntu 18.04 (same as you) and see if I can reproduce this.

One thing you can try in the meantime is to also install cmake via conda (`conda install cmake`) and then run cmake again - I don’t anticipate this’ll make too much difference but worth a try.

And as Michael noted, the `CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH` is how we’re currently forcing CMake to use the dependencies from conda (instead of the system).

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