# Steps to take after installation
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This section assumes that you've installed Amazon ParallelCluster. You will learn how to verify that Amazon ParallelCluster installed correctly, how to update to the latest version of Amazon ParallelCluster, and how to uninstall. 

You can verify that Amazon ParallelCluster was installed correctly by running [`pcluster version`](pcluster.version-v3.md).

```
$ pcluster version
{
"version": "3.15.0"
}
```

Amazon ParallelCluster is updated regularly. To update to the latest version of Amazon ParallelCluster, run the installation command again. For more information about the latest version of Amazon ParallelCluster, see the [Amazon ParallelCluster release notes](https://github.com/aws/aws-parallelcluster/blob/v3.1.1/CHANGELOG.md).

```
$ pip3 install aws-parallelcluster --upgrade --user
```

To uninstall Amazon ParallelCluster, use `pip3 uninstall`.

```
$ pip3 uninstall aws-parallelcluster
```

If you don't have Python and `pip3`, use the procedure for your environment.