Miniforge is the recommended installer for Conda from the conda-forge project. It includes conda, mamba, and their dependencies. On Thunder Compute instances, you must use Miniforge as other Conda distributions (like Anaconda or Miniconda) may have compatibility issues with system libraries. For more details about system compatibility, see our compatibility guide.

That said, if you have installed the standard version of Conda, and are seeing errors, try this command as a potential fix: 
conda install -c conda-forge gcc=12.1.0

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Installation Steps

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Create a new instance

  1. Create a new instance by following the steps in the Quickstart Guide and connect to it.

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Install Miniforge

  1. Download the Miniforge installer:
curl -L -O "https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/latest/download/Miniforge3-$(uname)-$(uname -m).sh"
  1. Install Miniforge:
bash Miniforge3-$(uname)-$(uname -m).sh
# Accept the license agreement (Enter, Q, Enter)
# Confirm the installation location (yes)
# Allow the installer to initialize Miniforge3 (yes)
  1. Activate the installation:
source ~/.bashrc
Once installed, you might want to check out our guide on running Jupyter notebooks to start using your Conda environment for data science and machine learning tasks.

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Need Help?

If you encounter any issues with Conda installation or package management, please check our troubleshooting guide or contact our support team.