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[mattpallissard]

No conda is for dependencies of your python environment. You need python itself, shell utilities, and some dependencies are dynamically linked. Think package manager for the `--prefix` compilation flag AND `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`

[myhf → mattpallissard]

conda can also be used to manage python packages, but its dependency solver is very slow and sometimes completely fails.

Once you have created a conda environment, it is usually much more practical to install packages with pip or mamba.