Command on page /preamble/how-to-use.html to create the conda environment no longer works?

[JackScheff]

On https://foundations.projectpythia.org/preamble/how-to-use.html under Interacting with Jupyter Books Locally, the recommended command to create Pythia's conda environment does not seem to execute. The command is

conda env create --force -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ProjectPythia/pythia-foundations/main/environment.yml

However, on running it (after having installed and initialized the latest version of Conda using miniconda), it returns:

conda: error: unrecognized arguments: --force

Is this argument no longer supported in the current version of Conda? Does the recommended command on this page therefore need to be updated? Or am I missing something? I am new to Conda, so the latter may be the case.

[brian-rose]

Hi @JackScheff, thanks for this report!

Looks like you are right, the --force option was removed in a conda release earlier this year.

The new syntax for the same functionality is to replace --force with --yes, so the full command should be

conda env create --yes -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ProjectPythia/pythia-foundations/main/environment.yml

Or, you can omit the --yes entirely -- but then you'll have to click Y to manually accept the proposed packages after conda finished solving the environment.

We'll get those docs updated.

[JackScheff]

Thank you so much Brian - this worked great! I'm new to all of this but quickly learning. -Jack

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[brian-rose]

Fixed in #487.

The new instructions are now published at https://foundations.projectpythia.org/preamble/how-to-use.html#interacting-with-jupyter-books-locally.