How to transfer Anaconda env installed on one machine to another? [Both with Ubuntu installed]

Question

I have been using Anaconda(4.3.23) on my GuestOS ubuntu 14.04 which is installed on Vmware on HostOS windows 8.1. I have setup an environm

Answer 1

From the very end of this documentation page:

Save packages for future use:

conda list --export > package-list.txt

Reinstall packages from an export file:

conda create -n myenv --file package-list.txt

Answer 2

## You can try below approach to move all the package from one machine to other :
## Note : Machine that packages are being moved should be same and python version also should be same



$ pip install conda-pack



# To package an environment:

## Pack environment my_env into my_env.tar.gz

$ conda pack -n my_env

## Pack environment my_env into out_name.tar.gz

$ conda pack -n my_env -o out_name.tar.gz


## Pack environment located at an explicit path into my_env.tar.gz

$ conda pack -p /explicit/path/to/my_env


# After following above approach, you will end up with a tar.gz file. Now to install package from this zip file follow below approach.

## To install the environment:

## Unpack environment into directory `my_env`

$ mkdir -p my_env
$ tar -xzf my_env.tar.gz -C my_env


## Use Python without activating or fixing the prefixes. Most Python
## libraries will work fine, but things that require prefix cleanups
## will fail.

$ ./my_env/bin/python


## Activate the environment. This adds `my_env/bin` to your path

$ source my_env/bin/activate


## Run Python from in the environment

(my_env) $ python


## Cleanup prefixes from in the active environment.
## Note that this command can also be run without activating the environment
## as long as some version of Python is already installed on the machine.

(my_env) $ conda-unpack

Answer 3

You can probably get away with copying the whole Anaconda installation to your cloud instance.

Answer 4

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If conda list --export failes like this ...

Executing conda list --export > package-list.txt creates a file which looks like this:

# This file may be used to create an environment using:
# $ conda create --name <env> --file <this file>
# platform: win-64
_tflow_1100_select=0.0.1=gpu
absl-py=0.5.0=py_0
astor=0.7.1=py_0
...

But creating a new environment by executing conda create -n myenv --file package-list.txt gives me this error:

Solving environment: ...working... failed

PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:

  - markdown==2.6.11=py_0
  ...

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... then try to use conda env export

According to this discussion execute the following command on your source machine:

source activate yourEnvironment
conda env export --no-builds > file.txt

On the target machine execute:

conda env create --file /path/to/file.txt

The file generated by conda env export looks a bit different, but it contains pip packages as well:

name: yourEnvironment
channels:
  - conda-forge
  - defaults
dependencies:
  - absl-py=0.5.0
  ...
  - pip:
    - astroid==2.0.4
    ...