conda-forge documentation

What is conda-forge?

conda-forge is a community effort and a GitHub organization which contains repositories of conda recipes and thus provides conda packages for a wide range of software. The built distributions are uploaded to anaconda.org/conda-forge and can be installed with conda.

Missing a package that you would love to install with conda?

Chances are we have already packaged it for you. You can search for packages online. Look out for packages provided by our conda-forge organization.

Cannot find a package or only outdated versions of a package? - Everybody is welcome to contribute to our package stack!

• We value all kinds of contributions — not just code. A few recommended ways to start contributing to conda-forge are:

• Contribute new packages

• Help update and maintain packages

• Suggest or implement improvements for our infrastructure

• Help improve the documentation

• For a detailed overview please refer to Becoming involved.

• To see our governance policies, see here.

• If you find bugs, need help, or want to talk to the developers, use our mailing lists or chat rooms:

  • GitHub issues

  • Element chatroom

  • Discourse group

  • Mailing list (archived)

Table of Contents

• User Documentation
  • A brief introduction
  • Announcements
  • Tips & tricks
  • Using conda-smithy to manage your CI
  • FAQ
  • Becoming involved
  • How to get help at conda-forge
  • Talks and resources about conda-forge
• Maintainer Documentation
  • Infrastructure
  • Contributing packages
  • Maintaining packages
  • Pinned dependencies
  • Configuring conda-forge.yml
  • Knowledge Base
  • FAQ
• Organisation Documentation
  • Guidelines
  • Governance
  • A list of current sub-teams
  • Joining the team
  • Core team meeting minutes
  • Index of CFEPs
  • Getting in Touch
  • Funding efforts for conda-forge
• Miscellaneous
  • Glossary
  • TODO list
• Contracting Information
  • Known Service Providers
  • Becoming a Service Provider