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How to list package versions available with conda
Is there a way to see what package versions are available with conda? I am getting an error with jupyter but it was working before. Something like yolk?

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What is the difference between miniconda and miniforge?
The miniforge installer is a relatively new, community-led, minimal conda installer that (as it says in its readme) "can be directly compared to Miniconda, with the added feature that conda-forge is the default channel".
It is unclear what is…

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Cannot install Python 3.7 on osx-arm64
I am trying to create a new environment with Python 3.7 using Conda like:
conda create -n qnn python=3.7
I got following errors:
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed with repodata from…

youngtackpark
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Cannot install latest nodejs using conda on Mac
When I run conda search -c conda-forge nodejs, I get:
# Name Version Build Channel
...
nodejs 14.2.0 h2c41780_1 conda-forge
nodejs 14.2.0 h38d8c5a_0 …

K G
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Specific package version with conda-forge
I am trying to install a specific Keras version from Keras 1 API using conda-forge, because
$ conda search keras
returns only the following Keras 2 API options:
keras 2.0.8 py35h86bcf3e_0 defaults
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8-Bit Borges
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What is the full conda-forge channel url?
I'm trying to install conda-forge packages from within an Anaconda Enterprise environment and the "standard" approach is failing because conda is searching relative to our enterprise anaconda instance, rather than using the external anaconda url.…

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Solving environment: failed with current_repodata.json, will retry with next repodata source. Conda Fails to Create a new env
** Conda Fails to Create a new env: stuck at "Executing transaction"**
I am working with a MacOS, BigSur 11.6, and have updated conda and mamba
conda update --all
conda update mamba
and, following guidance from a software installation guide I tried…

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Differences between matplotlib and matplotlib-base?
While updating my packages I've noticed that there is a package named "matplotlib-base". I couldn't figure out what the difference to "matplotlib" is, neither on the official website nor here on Stack Overflow, and I also couldn't find any…

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Conda packaging and the C library as a dependency
Conda does a nice job at keeping control of the necessary dependencies of a package, but apparently most packages exclude the C library as a traceable dependency. For example, let's install Gnuastro with this command:
conda install -c conda-forge…

makhlaghi
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How to set up a conda osx-64 environment on ARM mac?
I have an M1 MacBook using conda through miniforge3.
I want to use a packages not built for ARM (ifcopenshell, pythonocc-core). Mixing channels (conda-forge/osx-64 and conda-forge/osx-arm) often does not work reliably.
How do I tell conda/mamba to…

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Conda-Forge vs. conda-forge repo and security
So I use miniconda and was trying to install pyperclip from conda-forge but by mistake I capitalized the name so I run:
conda install -c Conda-Forge pyperclip
(Note the capital letters). The output was:
Collecting package metadata…

Joaquin
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Install the package from the specific channel with conda
I need the version 5.12 of the qt package in anaconda, but version 5.9.7 is installed.
>>> conda list qt -f
# packages in environment at /PATH/anaconda3/env/my_env
#
# Name Version Build Channel
qt …

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Are Conda, Miniconda and Anaconda free to use and open-source?
Are conda, miniconda, and anaconda free to use?
I've seen stack overflow answers saying one or the other is free to use, then another answer saying the opposite. I am confused.

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Can conda-forge have priority over defaults while still installing MKL versions of packages?
Documented Conda "best practices" is still to give conda-forge channel priority over defaults channel in environment.yml files. Can I continue to give priority to conda-forge whilst still downloading any mkl optimized packages from the `defaults…

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How to add a proper 'meta.yaml' recipe file for creating a conda-forge package distribution? Particularly `test` section in recipe file?
I'm trying to have conda-forge host a python package I've created which is already on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/ludoSim-jaib1/
I've read the conda-forge documentation on contributing packages here and the conda documentation on defining…

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