Conda Cheat Sheet

Conda is a powerful package manager for managing environments and dependencies in Python and other languages. Conda keeps your projects organized and avoids conflicts.

Here’s a quick reference guide to get you started: (1) conda basics, (2) environment management and (3) package management.

1 Conda Basics

• Verify conda is installed, check version number:

conda info

• Command line help:

conda create --help     # get the info of the command "create"

• Show version information for the current active Python:

python --version

• Show the locations of all versions of Python currently in the path (NOTE: The first version of Python in the list will be executed):

where python      # Windows
which -a python   # Linux, macOS

• Run an installed package such as Jupyter Notebook:

jupyter-notebook

2 Environment Management

• Create a new environment:

conda create -n myenv             # Create environment "myenv"
conda create -n myenv python=3.8  # Create environment "myenv" with Python 3.8

• Create an environment from a saved environment:

conda myenv create --file saved_env.txt

• Clone an environment:

conda create --clone…