Share Conda Environment with Others

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∟Share Conda Environment with Others

This section provides a tutorial example on how to share Conda environments with other users. 2 examples are provided: sharing personal environment in a group, and sharing system environment with everyone.

How To Share Conda Environments with Other Users? There are several ways to share a Conda environment with another user:

1. Open your personal Conda environment for others to use. For example, here is how share my "graph" environment with Joe who is in the "it" group.

herong$ chgrp -R it /home/herong/anaconda3/envs/graph

herong$ chmod -R 770 /home/herong/anaconda3/envs/graph

herong$ ls -l /home/herong/anaconda3/envs
  drwxrwx---.  3 herong it  24 Jul 30 11:09 graph

Then ask Joe to add "/home/herong/anaconda3/envs/" to his Conda configuration file.

joe$ conda config --add envs_dirs /home/herong/anaconda3/envs

joe$ conda info --env
# conda environments:
#
...
graph                    /home/herong/anaconda3/envs/graph

2. Install Conda environments at the system level and share them with everyone on the system. By default, Conda uses "/usr/local/anaconda3" as the system home directory.

herong$ echo $PATH
  /usr/local/anaconda3/condabin:/home/herong/.local/bin:/home/herong/bin:...

herong$ sudo /usr/local/anaconda3/condabin/conda create -n math
  ...
  ## Package Plan ##
    environment location: /usr/local/anaconda3/envs/math
Proceed ([y]/n)? y

herong$ conda info --env
  base             *  /usr/local/anaconda3
  math                /usr/local/anaconda3/envs/math

herong$ ls -l /usr/local/anaconda3/envs
  drwxr-sr-x.  3 root   root   24 Jul  13 20:44 math

Share it with all users. Note that "write" permission is needed, since some Python scripts create temporary files in the Conda environment directory.

herong$ sudo chmod -R 777 /usr/local/anaconda3/envs/math

herong$ ls -l /usr/local/anaconda3/envs
  drwxrwxrwx.  3 root   root   24 Jul  13 20:44 math

Then ask Joe to add "/usr/local/anaconda3/envs" to his Conda configuration file.

joe$ conda config --add envs_dirs //usr/local/anaconda3/envs

joe$ conda info --env
# conda environments:
#
...
graph                    /home/herong/anaconda3/envs/graph
math                     /usr/local/anaconda3/envs/math