Concepts

• Conda channels
• Channels and generating an index
• Conda-build recipes
• Package naming conventions

What is a “package”?

• A package is anything you install using your package manager.

• A "conda package" is a compressed tarball that contains

  • the module to be installed

  • information on how to install the package

• You can use conda-build to build a conda package.

What about channels?

• Channels contain packages.

• They conform to a standard structure and contain an index of available packages.

• An index of the available packages can be generated by running:

$ conda index <path to channel>

• conda is able to install from channels and uses the indexes in the channel to solve for requirements and dependencies.