@User Have you tried

pipx

?? I prefer it for running kedro new over anything else. I think it solves this chicken and egg situation quite well. And avoids the issue of having a stale system kedro install giving you a different template. I have some more details in this issue here https://github.com/quantumblacklabs/kedro/issues/753

# use the latest template
pipx run kedro new

# use a git hash/branch/tag
pipx run --spec git+https://github.com/quantumblacklabs/kedro.git@0.16.1 kedro new

# use a specific version out of pypi
pipx run --spec kedro==0.16.1 kedro new