<jupyter_start><jupyter_text>How to Persist Conda Environments in the big Pangeo- Big Pangeo == pangeo.chs.usgs.gov Statement of the problem - when using the big pangeo - how do i get a persistant conda environment- short answer is set it up in your home directory  Answer- tried to create a conda env with the latest big pangeo start button - FAIL- reverted to the last version of jupyter hub on the big pangeo --> SUCCESS```conda create --prefix ~/my_condas/maheshv2```> conda activate ~/my_condas/maheshv2convert pangeo_env.yaml to just a text file of libraries 1,$ s/  - //g- conda install -y mamba- mamba install --file pangeo_libaries.txt- wait 30 minutes - then success  Article - Reference- https://towardsdatascience.com/get-your-conda-environment-to-show-in-jupyter-notebooks-the-easy-way-17010b76e874<jupyter_code>! env | grep -i home
! conda env list<jupyter_output># conda environments:
#
                         /home/jovyan/.envs
base                     /srv/conda
pangeo                *  /srv/conda/envs/pangeo<jupyter_text>What env am i using?<jupyter_code>import os
print (os.environ['CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV'])<jupyter_output>pangeo<jupyter_text>Step 1 -- create a place for my custom conda environments - mkdir<jupyter_code>! mkdir ~/my_condas<jupyter_output><empty_output><jupyter_text>Step 2 create a new conda env in this directory<jupyter_code>%%bash

conda create --prefix ~/my_condas/landsatv1
conda activate landsatv1
conda install -y rasterio<jupyter_output>Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): ...working... done
Solving environment: ...working... done
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): ...working... failed
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