# launch fails on MacOS - conda version
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/launch-fails-on-macos-conda-version/17067
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [August 12, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/launch-fails-on-macos-conda-version/17067 "2025-08-12T19:04:13Z")
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### Author:  [@rtlee](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/rtlee)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/launch-fails-on-macos-conda-version/17067/1 "2025-08-12T19:04:13Z")
I installed paraview 6.0.0 using conda, and I get the following error:
```auto
( 1.587s) [paraview]vtkOpenGLRenderWindow.c:920 WARN| vtkGenericOpenGLRenderWindow (0x11ea143a0): Failed to initialize OpenGL functions!
( 1.602s) [paraview]vtkOpenGLRenderWindow.c:946 WARN| vtkGenericOpenGLRenderWindow (0x11ea143a0): Unable to find a valid OpenGL 3.2 or later implementation. Please update your video card driver to the latest version. If you are using Mesa please make sure you have version 11.2 or later and make sure your driver in Mesa supports OpenGL 3.2 such as llvmpipe or openswr. If you are on windows and using Microsoft remote desktop note that it only supports OpenGL 3.2 with nvidia quadro cards. You can use other remoting software such as nomachine to avoid this issue.
```
I also downloaded the package from [Paraview.org](http://Paraview.org) directly, and that version works fine. I can’t figure out what is different that is breaking the OpenGL initialization.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2025, 11:38am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/launch-fails-on-macos-conda-version/17067/2 "2025-08-25T11:38:28Z")
> [@rtlee](#):
>
> paraview 6.0.0 using conda
Sounds like a conda issue then, not a ParaView issue.