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Check for conda base env and refuse to install into it
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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions support/setup/environment.sh
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Expand Up @@ -30,8 +30,10 @@ detect_environments() {
fi

if [ "a${CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV}" != "a" ] ; then
ENV_TYPE="conda"
ENV_NAME="${CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV}"
if [ "a${CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV}" != "abase" ] ; then
ENV_TYPE="conda"
ENV_NAME="${CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV}"
fi
fi
}

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9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions support/setup/help.sh
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Expand Up @@ -104,8 +104,9 @@ print_environment_step() {

To install any packages, you need to create and activate a Conda environment
or a Python virtualenv. If you have an environment into which you'd like to
install AMUSE, you should activate it now. To create a new Conda environment,
use
install AMUSE, then you should activate it now.

To create a new Conda environment, use

conda create --channel conda-forge --override-channels -n Amuse-env

Expand All @@ -115,6 +116,10 @@ Then you activate it using

You can name the environment anything you like instead of my-amuse-env.

Note that installing packages other than conda itself in the (base) environment
is not supported by conda, and this installer will refuse to do so. Please make
a specific conda environment for your project as described above.

To create a Python virtualenv, use

python3 -m venv venv
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