Running Conda

Legal issue

Anaconda, the company behind miniconda and anaconda, changed their license in 2024. Also educational institutions with more than 200 employees are required to buy an enterprise license.

Workarround

Running conda itself is free to use. But using their software repositories now requires licensing.

Change therefore to open software repositories by changing the default repository to conda-forge:

conda config –remove channels defaults
conda config –add channels conda-forge
conda config –set channel_priority strict

Alternatives

You can use conda-forge or miniforge

wget https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/latest/download/Miniforge3-Linux-x86_64.sh
sh Miniforge3-Linux-x86_64.sh

Read the documenation at: https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge

Python Virtual environment

If you do not need a special python version, you can just create an virtual environment and install the standard python software via pip or pipx.

python -m venv .
source bin/activate
pip install <yourpackage>

Also you might take a look at uv.