Conda on Spiedie

Table of Contents

  1. What is Conda
  2. Activating Conda on Spiedie
  3. Deactivating Conda
  4. Using Conda
    1. Creating a Conda environment
    2. Viewing available environments
    3. Activating environment
    4. Deactivating environment
    5. Installing packages
    6. Viewing installed packages
  5. Conda Documentation

What is Conda?

Conda is an open-source package management and environment system. It allows you create isolated virtual environments and install software packages without requiring root access. If a program or package is not available as a module, we highly recommend you use Conda to install it and all it’s required dependencies.

Activating Conda on Spiedie


In order to activate Conda at log in on Spiedie, log in and run the following command:

/cm/shared/apps/miniconda/bin/conda init

Then, close the window and log back in.

You should see the terminal include the base environment tag like:

(base)[username@spiedie81 ~]:

If you would like to disable Conda at log in and would like to use Conda, run:

conda activate 

Deactivating Conda

If you would not like to activate automatically at log in run the following command:

conda config --set auto_activate_base false

Using Conda


Creating a Conda environment

To create a new Conda environment, run:

conda create --name environment_name

Viewing available environments

To view all the available Conda environments, run:

conda info --env

Activating environment

To activate an environment currently created on your system, run:

conda activate environment_name

Deactivate environment

To return to the base environment, run:

conda deactivate

Installing packages

conda install package_name

Viewing installed packages

To list all the installed packages in the current environment, run:

conda list

Conda External Resources and Documentation

For more information on using Conda and documentation, click here .

To download a quick cheat for Conda, click here.