# Markdown xblock broken in Quince?
**URL:** https://discuss.openedx.org/t/markdown-xblock-broken-in-quince/11925
**Category:** Site Operations Help
**Created:** [December 14, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/markdown-xblock-broken-in-quince/11925 "2023-12-14T22:08:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Rohan](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Rohan)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/markdown-xblock-broken-in-quince/11925/1 "2023-12-14T22:08:44Z")
Does [this Markdown xblock](https://github.com/citynetwork/markdown-xblock/) work for anyone else in Quince? It doesn’t seem to work for me.
cc @mrtmm who helped me with Markdown problems in the past. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@mrtmm](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/mrtmm)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2023, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/markdown-xblock-broken-in-quince/11925/2 "2023-12-15T09:44:00Z")
@Rohan Ack, thanks for the ping, I will look into it when I get a chance and update the XBlock.
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### Author:  [@Rohan](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Rohan)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/markdown-xblock-broken-in-quince/11925/3 "2023-12-15T20:38:02Z")
Thanks Maari.
Also, just to confirm, the only thing that should be necessary is just `pip install markdown-xblock==1.3.0` right? Because I just made a blank Palm instance too, and if I only do that, it doesn’t seem to be available in Palm either. (I made sure I have “markdown” under the advanced components in the example class that I imported from an older site where it worked.)
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### Author:  [@mrtmm](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/mrtmm)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/markdown-xblock-broken-in-quince/11925/4 "2023-12-18T15:34:36Z")
Hi @Rohan, are you using Tutor? If so, you’ll need to include it in your `openedx` image.
In `config.yml` add:
```auto
OPENEDX_EXTRA_PIP_REQUIREMENTS:
- markdown-xblock==1.3.0
```
run `tutor config save` & rebuild your `openedx` image
If done so, the component should show up in your courses (after you re-import). I’ll make sure to add this to the README as well.
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### Author:  [@mrtmm](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/mrtmm)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2023, 3:45pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/markdown-xblock-broken-in-quince/11925/5 "2023-12-21T15:45:43Z")
I have now tested the XBlock in a Quince Tutor devstack; I was able to install v1.3.0 without issues but still I bumped the requirements and updated the README with instructions how to install and configure the XBlock in a Tutor environment. So we’ve now tagged v1.4.0 and I tested that again in my devstack and it seems to be working fine.
@Rohan if you are still having troubles with it please give me some more information about your setup.
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### Author:  [@Rohan](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Rohan)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/markdown-xblock-broken-in-quince/11925/6 "2024-03-03T20:43:59Z")
I can confirm I got it to work. The full steps required are as follows:
```auto
pip install markdown-xblock==1.4.0
tutor config save --append OPENEDX_EXTRA_PIP_REQUIREMENTS=markdown-xblock==1.4.0
tutor images build openedx
tutor local launch
```
(I’m not sure if that --append option for `tutor config save` is new to Quince or not, but I had never seen it before.)
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### Author:  [@ABC](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/ABC)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/markdown-xblock-broken-in-quince/11925/7 "2024-04-06T22:14:01Z")
Hello @mrtmm. I would just note that I was trying to use the instructions from `https://github.com/citynetwork/markdown-xblock` and it didn’t say anything about needing to do `tutor images build openedx`, and so I kept not seeing the markdown plugin working. Could you add that to the README so it’s more clear? Thank you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/markdown-xblock-broken-in-quince/11925/8 "2024-07-05T22:14:33Z")
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