diff --git a/llama_stack/cli/stack/configure.py b/llama_stack/cli/stack/configure.py
index 7fbfaf769..b8940ea49 100644
--- a/llama_stack/cli/stack/configure.py
+++ b/llama_stack/cli/stack/configure.py
@@ -72,9 +72,9 @@ class StackConfigure(Subcommand):
             Path(os.path.expanduser("~/.conda/envs")) / f"llamastack-{args.config}"
         )
         output = subprocess.check_output(
-            ["bash", "-c", "conda info --json -a | jq '.envs'"]
+            ["bash", "-c", "conda info --json -a"]
         )
-        conda_envs = json.loads(output.decode("utf-8"))
+        conda_envs = json.loads(output.decode("utf-8"))["envs"]
 
         for x in conda_envs:
             if x.endswith(f"/llamastack-{args.config}"):
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a035cce28..ea6074703 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ llama-models>=0.0.39
 prompt-toolkit
 python-dotenv
 pydantic>=2
-jq
 requests
 rich
 termcolor