<p>Running the following commands as in the docs on my clean Ubuntu 16.04 server:</p>

<pre><code>minikube start --memory=7168 --cpus=3 --kubernetes-version=v1.10.0 --vm-driver=kvm2
kubectl apply -f istio-1.0.4/install/kubernetes/helm/helm-service-account.yaml
helm init --service-account tiller --wait
helm install istio-1.0.4/install/kubernetes/helm/istio --name istio --namespace istio-system
</code></pre>

<p>However, instead of a successful installation I'm getting the following error:</p>

<pre><code>Error: release istio failed: customresourcedefinitions.apiextensions.k8s.io "envoyfilters.networking.istio.io" already exists
</code></pre>

<p>Versions:</p>

<pre><code>kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"13", GitVersion:"v1.13.0", GitCommit:"ddf47ac13c1a9483ea035a79cd7c10005ff21a6d", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2018-12-03T21:04:45Z", GoVersion:"go1.11.2", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"10", GitVersion:"v1.10.0", GitCommit:"fc32d2f3698e36b93322a3465f63a14e9f0eaead", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2018-03-26T16:44:10Z", GoVersion:"go1.9.3", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

istioctl version
Version: 1.0.4
GitRevision: d5cb99f479ad9da88eebb8bb3637b17c323bc50b
User: root@8c2feba0b568
Hub: docker.io/istio
GolangVersion: go1.10.4
BuildStatus: Clean
</code></pre>

<p>I already tried to <code>minikube delete</code>, as well as adding <code>rm -rf ~/.minikube</code> just to be on the safe side but still I'm getting a resource exist error. Any ideas?</p>

Jjang
<p>Okay, you're not going to like this. It seems to be an issue with helm v2.12.0.</p>

<p>You'll need to downgrade to v2.11.0 for it to work successfully. I've included some of the necessary changes to your helm install to make it work below.</p>

<pre><code># download the right client version
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/helm/master/scripts/get | DESIRED_VERSION=v2.11.0 bash

# init the right tiller server
helm init \
--tiller-image gcr.io/kubernetes-helm/tiller:v2.11.0 \
--service-account tiller
</code></pre>
