How to use Conda

April 9, 2020

Introduction
Commands

Introduction

Conda is a useful cross-platform environmental package manager.

Commands

List all the environments
```
conda info -e / conda env list
```

Create an environment

conda create -n <environment_name> 
conda create -n <environment_name> --no-default-packages    # no default packages will be pre-installed
conda create -n <environment_name> python=3.6   # create an environment with a specific version of python

Create a environment from a define yml file or a requirement list

conda create -n <environment_name> -f <path_to_yml_file / path_to_requirement_list>

Create a environment by copying from an existing enviroment

conda create -n <new_environment_name> --clone <environment_name>

Get into/off an environment

conda activate <environment_name> / conda deactivate

Remove an environment

conda env remove --name <environment_name> / conda remove --name <environment_name> --all

List the installed packages of an environment
```
conda list -e
```
Export a conda environment to a yml file
```
conda env export > environment.yml
```