Installation

System Requirements

condax works on macOS and linux. Windows may be supported in future depending on user interest/.

condax does NOT need a preexisting conda installation, though if it can find one it will use it.

Install using pip

python 3.6+ with pip is required to install condax.

Assuming you have pip installed for python3, run:

python3 -m pip install --user condax
python3 -m condax ensure-path

Install using conda

Alternatively you can install condax using conda (it just feels right doing it this way).

conda install -c conda-forge condax

Upgrade condax

python3 -m pip install -U condax

Installation Options

condax's default binary location is ~/.local/bin. This can be overriden using link_destination in ~/.condaxrc.

condax's default conda environment location is ~/.local/condax. This can be overriden using prefix_path in ~/.condaxrc.

Shell Completion

You can easily get your shell's tab completions working by following instructions printed with this command:

These completions are provided by typer.

condax --install-completion

Install condax Development Versions

New versions of pipx are published as beta or release candidates. These versions look something like 0.13.0b1, where b1 signifies the first beta release of version 0.13. These releases can be tested with

pip install --user pipx --upgrade --dev