Mamba Installation

Fresh install (recommended)

We recommend that you start with the Miniforge distribution >= Miniforge3-22.3.1-0. If you need an older version of Mamba, please use the Mambaforge distribution. Miniforge comes with the popular conda-forge channel preconfigured, but you can modify the configuration to use any channel you like.

After successful installation, you can use the mamba commands as described in mamba user guide.

Note

1. After installation, please make sure that you do not have the Anaconda default channels configured.

2. Do not install anything into the base environment as this might break your installation. See here for details.

Existing conda install (not recommended)

Warning

This way of installing Mamba is not recommended. We strongly recommend to use the Miniforge method (see above).

To get mamba, just install it into the base environment from the conda-forge channel:

# NOT RECOMMENDED: This method of installation is not recommended, prefer Miniforge instead (see above)
# conda install -n base --override-channels -c conda-forge mamba 'python_abi=*=*cp*'

Warning

Installing mamba into any other environment than base is not supported.

Docker images

In addition to the Miniforge standalone distribution (see above), there are also the condaforge/miniforge3 docker images:

docker run -it --rm condaforge/miniforge3:latest mamba info

Conda libmamba solver

For a totally conda-compatible experience with the fast Mamba solver, conda-libmamba-solver now ships by default with Conda. Just use an up to date version of Conda to enjoy the speed improvememts.