Installing And Updating Conda With A Proxy

In the past, I’ve discussed how not to fetch conda packages behind a firewall. In this post, let’s assume that you are working behind a firewall in some corporate environment but your network administrator has given you access to a username/password-procted proxy:port that allows you to reach the “outside world”:

http://<username>:<password>@proxy.yourcompany.com:8080
https://<username>:<password>@proxy.yourcompany.com:8080

Now, how do we download, install, and update conda but make sure that we direct our requests through our proxy? First, let’s download miniconda through our proxy and then install it:

#!/bin/bash

prox(){
    export http_proxy=http://<username>:<password>@proxy.yourcompany.com:8080
    export https_proxy=http://<username>:<password>@proxy.yourcompany.com:8080
    export HTTP_PROXY=http://<username>:<password>@proxy.yourcompany.com:8080
    export HTTPS_PROXY=https://<username>:<password>@proxy.yourcompany.com:8080
}

proxy
curl -O https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh
bash ./Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh -f -b -p miniconda3

With the proxy function above, you can now update conda and install other packages with:

proxy
conda update -y conda
conda update -y --all
conda install -y -c conda-forge stumpy numpy scipy numba

Now, you should be able to use the proxy and to install the software that you need to be productive!

Published

Nov 7, 2021