conda-self#

Manage your conda base environment safely.

conda-self provides commands to install, update, and remove conda plugins in a protected base environment. It integrates with conda doctor to set up base protection – cloning your current base to a default environment, resetting base to essentials, and freezing it so only conda self commands can modify it.

Quick example#

Protect base, install a plugin, update, reset

# Protect your base environment
$ conda doctor base-protection --fix

# Install a plugin safely
$ conda self install conda-index

# Update conda and all plugins
$ conda self update

# Remove a plugin
$ conda self remove conda-index

# Reset base if things go wrong
$ conda self reset

What it does#

conda self keeps your base environment minimal and stable:

  1. Base protection – conda doctor base-protection --fix clones base to default, resets it to essentials, and freezes it

  2. Plugin management – conda self install, update, and remove bypass the freeze to manage plugins through subprocess calls that respect all of conda’s safety checks

  3. Reset – conda self reset restores base from a snapshot (installer-provided, base-protection, or current state)

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