While a base anaconda module exists for users to access and build their own conda environments, this is not the only way. Below you will find instructions created by Eric Firing covering an alternate method in which you can use miniconda on Mana instead of the Anaconda module.
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Source material for the below instructions can be found at: https://currents.soest.hawaii.edu/ocn_data_analysis/packages.html
Clusters are set up and managed centrally, so setting up and using the conda package manager and conda-installed packages is a little bit different than it would be on a user’s own Linux box or Mac. There are three types of difference:
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