Anaconda package manager (predominantly Python)This page is outdated!

Description

Anaconda is a package manager commonly used for Python.

Prerequisites

None

Modules

The anaconda3  module. See Python for the available versions. To load version 2020.11 for Python 3, you would do

module load anaconda3/2020.11

Now, in order to use it, you need to source the anaconda init shell script. You can either always run

source $CONDASH

after loading the module, or if you want to only use one version of anaconda3  and have it available every time you log in, you can enter

conda init SHELL

where SHELL  is the name of the shell that you use, which will most likely be bash , tcsh , or zsh .

Creating And Loading Environments

conda (and mamba) work with environments that can have their own packages completely separate from each other. When you create an environment, you can specify any packages you want to install (note, you can install more later). For example, it is common to specify the exact Python version you want in case you don't want the default. To create the environment FOO with Python 3.8 package along with various other packages, you would use

conda create -n FOO python=3.8 PACKAGE1 PACKAGE2 ...

To enter an environment (make it the active on in use), you activate it like

conda activate FOO

To leave the environment, you deactivate it like

conda deactivate

For more details on how to use conda, check out the conda tutorial.