Conda Utils

Introduction

These scripts can be useful when dealing with conda. I think some features are missing that is why these scripts are meant for. But I might be misusing conda, or did not found the proper explanations in the documention. In these cases, please write me so that I can remove / fix / disclaim the scripts.

Linux

Running scripts

You can run them in your terminal. For instance, assuming you are in the folder containing the script :

sh conda_find_package.sh PACKAGE_NAME

For instance, if you look at the package containing numpy in the name :

sh conda_find_package.sh numpy

which may return you such an output assuming you have some conda environment with numpy package installed.

Packages for conda environment: NAME_1
numpy                     2.0.1           py311h08b1b3b_1  
numpy-base                2.0.1           py311hf175353_1  

Packages for conda environment: NAME_2
numpy                     1.26.4          py312hc5e2394_0  
numpy-base                1.26.4          py312h0da6c21_0  

Packages for conda environment: NAME_3
numpy                     2.0.1           py312h1103770_0    conda-forge
numpydoc                  1.7.0              pyhd8ed1ab_3    conda-forge

Please note that use of wildcard (*) was needed : it found all packages containing your input (in this example, it found both numpy and numpydoc).

In case you have not this package in no conda environment, you will have such a printed output :

No conda environment has the package: label

Using alias commands

To be able to call these scripts in whatever terminal at whatever current directory, I invite you to create some aliases. There are several ways of doing it. Here is mine : I have a .bash_aliases file close to my .bashrc file (see some explanations on askubuntu). And I have declared some functions, and copied the script code in it.

conda_find_package() {
    COPY THE SCRIPT CODE HERE
}

Windows

Running scripts

You can run them in your terminal. For instance, assuming you are in the folder containing the script :

conda_find_package.bat PACKAGE_NAME

TODO : finish this with examples.

Using alias commands

TODO : explain how.