Creating New Environments#

A new conda environment can be created with create, and you can specifiy the version of python!

NAME is the conda environment name
VERSION is the version number of python

New Environment

conda create -n NAME                          

env w/ python verion

conda create -n NAME python=VERSION

Running the new environment.#

conda activate <name>

In your new activated environment, you can now install needed packages.

conda install <package-name>                 # Install Package
conda install -c conda-forge <package-name>  # Install package from a specific channel (-c)

Leaving Environment#

Use deactivate if you want to leave or switch to a different conda environment

conda deactivate

List available environments.#

conda env list

List packages within an environment.#

conda activate <name>
conda list

Exporting environments to a YML file.#

conda activate <name>
conda env export > <name>.yml

Installing a Conda environment from a YML file.#

conda env create -f <name>.yml