Mini Conda Setup

Miniconda is a free minimal installer for conda. It is a small bootstrap version of Anaconda that includes only conda, Python, the packages they both depend on, and a small number of other useful packages (like pip, zlib, and a few others).

 

Installation

Following the installation tutorial in Quick Command Line Install:

sudo mkdir -p /opt/miniconda3
sudo wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -O /opt/miniconda3/miniconda.sh
sudo bash /opt/miniconda3/miniconda.sh -b -u -p /opt/miniconda3
sudo rm -rf /opt/miniconda3/miniconda.sh

These previous 4 commands work even if you are installing miniconda3 inside a docker container (via distrobox), since it installs it in /opt directory. 

Remember: distrobox has its own /opt directory, separated from /opt directory of the machine.

Lastly:

sudo /opt/miniconda3/bin/conda init bash

and

conda config --set auto_activate_base false 

Command Lines 

conda create --name {name_of_your_environment}  (create a conda env )

 conda create --name {name_of_your_environment} python=3.11  (create a conda env with specific version of specific library)

conda env list  -  (see all available conda environments)

conda activate {name_of_your_environment}   -  (get inside a specific chosen conda env)

conda deactivate  -  (exit the actual conda environment)

conda env remove --name {name_of_environment}  -  (delete specific chosen conda env)

conda env remove --name {name_of_environment} --all  -  (delete specific chosen conda env, and all the libraries within))