Desktop setup of Conda environment

Using this package to install Mambaforge in a bash terminal

Fresh install via script only

bash condaFromScratch.sh

This script will download Miniforge and install it, then create and populate environments based on the YAML files found in ./envs.

This will leave the base environment untouched and keep most of the working libraries in environments. Of these, work is the most utilized.

Using the config example file as .condarc config file

cp configBase ~/.condarc

Some Conda Resources

Conda documentation

https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/index.html

Miniforge / Mambaforge source and repo

https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge

Python 3 (64-bit) Miniconda installer

https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh

All installers and packages

https://repo.continuum.io/

Package search

https://anaconda.org/ or https://conda-forge.org/feedstock-outputs/

Conda basics

System update options

mamba update mamba conda
mamba update --all -y
mamba update -n {env} --all -y

Adding the -y to any of the above update commands to have the updater run without waiting for input

Config flags to set

conda config --set auto_update_conda False
conda config --set auto_activate_base False

Disabling auto_activate_base prevents conda from activating the base on every new terminal window

Final suggestion

If you don't run mamba init in the shell you plan to use, you will want to add ${HOME}/conda/bin to your PATH variable in your .*rc file.