How can I install a conda environment when offline?

Question

I would like to create a conda environment on a machine that has no network connection. What I\'ve done so far is:

On a machine that is connected to the internet:

Answer 1

Here's a solution that may help. It's not very pretty but it gets the job done. So i suppose you have a machine where you have a conda environment in which you've installed all the packages you need. I will refer to this as ENV1 You will have to go to this environment directory and locate it. It is usually found in \Anaconda3\envs. I suggest compressing the folder but you could just use it as is. Copy the desired environment folder into your offline machine's directory for anaconda environments. This first step should get your new environment to respond to commands like conda activate.

You will notice though that software like spyder and jupyter don't work anymore (probably because of path differences). My solution to this was to clone the base environment in the offline machine into a new environment that i will refer to as ENV2. What you need to do then is copy the contents of ENV2 into those of ENV1 and replace files.

This should overwrite the files related to spyder, jupyter.. and keep your imported packages intact.