Den 2026-09-21 skrev Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <[email protected]>:
> On 9/21/2026 5:17 PM, Martin Schöön wrote:
<snip>
>> 
>> Yesterday, however, I encountered a problem that a quick internet
>> search told me is somewhat common: adding a package to an environment
>> stalls at the 'solving environment' stage. I found a bunch of rather
>> different 'fixes'. I have not tried any yet. I think maybe I am doing
>> environments wrong.
>> 
<snip>
>> My thinking now:
>> 
>> I should have more rather than fewer environments and make them more
>> task specific -- avoid 'general purpose' environments to limit the
>> number of packages in each environment.
>> 
>> I have noticed that "conda update whatever" /always/ tells me everything
>> is up-to-date. This can't be true. Will the procedure of the third
>> bullet above solve this?
>> 
>> No, I have not tried asking any LLM. I hope for some real human advice.
>> 
> Dear Martin,
<snip>
> Have you considered installing the offending package using your opera-
> ting system package manager instead, if available as such?  There are
> n+1 [1] Linux package managers, so I leave off any suggestions for the
> command line tool.
>
I think this is how most or even all Linux users start with Python. Then,
after a while you want to use a Python package (or version) not catered
for by your system package manager...

/Martin
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