conda skills

Learn how to use conda in a way that supports your research!

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February 18, 2025

Conda is a widely used package management system which allows you to isolate different Python “environments” from each other, allowing you to use different versions of libraries or modules for different projects. However, mismanagement of packages can lead to dependency hell with tangled environments and incompatible versions of different modules.

This presentation aims to provide you with a workflow for using conda that ensures:

You can rebuild your environment on a different computer/platform without problem
That you can record exact dependencies for the sake of reproducibility
That you can update your environment without it breaking (even if you have pip dependencies too!)
You don’t get tangled up in licensing issues.

To read the contents of this presentation in article format, please see my blog post on using conda;

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BibTeX citation:

@online{murphy_quinlan2025,
  author = {Murphy Quinlan, Maeve},
  title = {Conda Skills},
  date = {2025-02-18},
  url = {https://murphyqm.github.io/research-software-dev/managing-dependencies/conda-skills.html},
  langid = {en}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Murphy Quinlan, Maeve. 2025. “Conda Skills.” February 18, 2025. https://murphyqm.github.io/research-software-dev/managing-dependencies/conda-skills.html.