Cloning a Conda Environment in Your Notebook Session

After a conda environment is installed, it can be cloned.

Cloning provides you a sandbox environment that you can modify by installing more libraries. The original environment remains available locally in a notebook session and is unmodified. You can clone an Installed Conda Environment by clicking Clone in an environment card. Copy the odsc conda clone command, and then run it in a terminal window tab. Provide a new name for the cloned environment, and (optionally) a version number.

You can also clone directly in the terminal using this odsc conda command:

odsc conda clone -f <slug> -e <target-name>

The command defines the slug of the source environment and the name of the target environment. You are prompted to change the version of the conda environment, which is optional.