> I just tried that and it turns out that that installs the package into > the main anaconda/miniconda installation rather than the conda env. > Definitely not what you want.
Yes, installing in the root environment (as it's called) is generally a bad idea. I use Conda at work, in a shared sort of environment. It took our smart people (I'm not one) awhile along with some updates from the Anaconda folks to get the whole enterprise-wide Conda thing to work reasonably well. I do one key thing to prevent myself from being the cause of problems. I never run with the root environment's bin directory in PATH. Caveat... I write this with my Linux/Unix hat on. I don't own a Windows hat. Again, YMMV. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list