Introduction

This page covers documentation about the conda release system for LCLS users.

Starting Conda

Users need to do the following

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A great way to experiment with a new package is to create your own conda environment and install the package there (this is similar to using virtualenv - which doesn't seem to work with our conda installations). This will work fine for environments based on packages from continuum, conda-forge, etc. However if you want to create your own conda environment that includes LCLS software such as psana, or our local build of openmpi or hdf5 there will be issues. We recommend you look the Psana Developer Documentation to see if a psana test release will fit your needs. If not, here are some issues:

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Supporting softlinks from user home directories to a central package repository is a feature under development at continuum. Before However even with this feature, before users can create their own conda environment with psana that they run cross platform, we will need to do some development.