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Installing conda packages in specific directory

Is there any way to download and install the conda packages in specified directory without creating a conda environment in that directory?

Solution

  • If you just want to download the packages, you can set an environmental variable to the specified directory, and use the --download-only switch

    set CONDA_PKGS_DIRS=C:\temp

conda install zlib --download-only

dir c:\temp\
 Volume in drive C is Windows
 Volume Serial Number is DC83-883D

 Directory of c:\temp

...
07/13/2020  08:16 PM    <DIR>          zlib-1.2.11-h2fa13f4_1006
07/13/2020  08:16 PM           241,593 zlib-1.2.11-h2fa13f4_1006.tar.bz2