Introduction to Conda

General information about the Conda package management system.

Why use Conda? #

The CCB cluster provides many bioinformatics software packages through the Environment Modules system, managed by system administrators.

When software is not available through the module system, users may use the Conda package management system to install software packages themselves, and even organise distinct environments that may contain different version of those software package for different projects.

Additionally, when installing a package, Conda identifies and resolves package dependencies, installing the latest appropriate version of every dependency for the target package.

Get started #

In the following pages, we provide guidance to install and setup the Conda package management system for an individual user on the CCB cluster, we demonstrate how to install packages and create distinct environments, and how to activate environments before using the newly installed software packages on the command line.