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Sometimes it is useful to install python packages that are not part of psana-python or install particular versions of a software package.  These should be done from the "psbuild-rhel7" machines since they have internet access.  In particular "psana" nodes do NOT have internet access.

Anaconda

You can create your own conda environments with your own choice of packages.  You don't need to install your own conda software for this, you can reuse the existing LCLS software and use the "conda create" command that you can read about on the web.

One disadvantage of creating your own environments is that they can use significant disk space.  If you run into disk space issues send email to pcds-ana-l@slac.stanford.edu.

If you want to get a conda environment with psana you can clone the psana environment into a local environment that you can control with a command like this (which will take some time because it has to copy several GB to the new environment):

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