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Intricacies of conda package manager
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When installing a package from a non-defaults channel, we usually do:

conda install -c conda-forge packagename

This has the side effect of adding conda-forge as a higher priority channel then defaults Alternatively, we can now use

conda install conda-forge::packagename

to only have the specified packagename to be installed from conda-forge, or one could do:

conda install -c defaults -c conda-forge packagename

But this is verbose and one could certainly forget this. Alternatively, adding the conda-forge channel, or better, appending the conda-forge channel to the available channels is a better option. The list of available channels with their priority is obtained by:

conda config --show channels

And, adding/appending a channel is done using:

conda config --add conda-forge
# OR
conda config --append conda-forge
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