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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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The user has no ability to install system-level packages. Instead, the administrators install packages together with modules that the user can load to put those packages on the user’s path, thereby making them accessible.
The user cannot write to the user’s own .bashrc file, even though the standard Linux permissions for the file show the file as user-writable. Writing is blocked at a different level.
Some libraries must be compiled specifically for HPC use, so packages from conda-forge using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) might not work correctly. See this note on MPI in conda-forge. I don’t know how this applies to the Mana.
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