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-name: cryocloud
-
-channels:
-  - conda-forge
-  - nodefaults
-
-dependencies:
-  - python~=3.11.0
-  # Required until https://github.com/jupyterhub/repo2docker/pull/1196 is merged
-  - jupyterhub-singleuser~=4.0.1
-  # nbgitpuller is very helpful when distributing user content
-  - nbgitpuller~=1.2.0
-  # Specify major version of jupyterlab to use. Manually bump it when you want to upgrade
-  # jupyterlab version
-  - jupyterlab>=4.0,<4.1
-  # This provides memory usage stats on JupyterLab and classic notebook
-  - jupyter-resource-usage~=1.0.1
-  # https://syncthing.net/ provides a dropbox-like interface for syncing directories across users,
-  # hubs and machines. Used along with `jupyter-syncthing-proxy`.
-  - jupyter-syncthing-proxy==1.0.3
-  - syncthing~=1.22.1
-  # gh-scoped-creds allows users to securely push to GitHub from their repo.
-  # https://blog.jupyter.org/securely-pushing-to-github-from-a-jupyterhub-3ee42dfdc54f has
-  # some more information
-  - gh-scoped-creds==4.1
-  # More git tools from github-cli
-  - gh~=2.32.1
-
-  # VS Code support
-  - jupyter-vscode-proxy~=0.5
-  - code-server~=4.23
-
-  # Jupyter tools
-  - ipython~=8.17
-  - ipywidgets~=8.1.1
-  - jupyter-ai~=2.20
-  - jupyter-book~=1.0.0
-  # - jupyter-collaboration~=2.0.1
-  - jupyter-offlinenotebook~=0.3.1
-  - jupyter-sshd-proxy~=0.2
-  - jupyterlab-favorites~=3.2.1
-  - jupyterlab-geojson~=3.4.0
-  - jupyterlab-git~=0.50.0
-  - jupyterlab-h5web~=11.1.0
-  - jupyterlab-myst~=2.4.2
-  - jupyterlab_pygments~=0.3.0 # To bring extension up-to-date
-  - jupytext~=1.16.1
-  - nbdime~=4.0.1
-  # JupyterBook Addons
-  - sphinx~=7.3
-  - sphinxcontrib-bibtex
-  # Interactive apps
-  - itables~=2.1
-  - voila~=0.5
-
-  # Resolves warning "No ICDs were found": https://github.com/CryoInTheCloud/hub-image/issues/50
-  - ocl-icd-system
-  # needed for Linux desktop to work
-  - websockify>=0.10
-  # Includes new subcommands (`switch` & `restore`) and vulnerability fixes
-  # over the version available via ubuntu sources
-  - git>=2.39
-
-  # Desktop server
-  # Not all packages will be available from conda-forge, we install from pip when we need to.
-  - pip~=23.3.2
-  - pip:
-    # Access linux desktop from inside JupyterHub
-    - jupyter-desktop-server==0.1.3