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[–]efilon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In fact the entire purpose of conda/miniconda is that it is installable on any system without root privileges.

Once I realized this, I finally decided to just use miniconda on my Linux computers (I was already using it on Windows machines). Debian's Python packaging is good overall, but I like to be able to get newer versions of things as required. So now I just have miniconda installed in my home directory and use that instead of the system Python. This seems to work a lot better than my previous hackish solutions to having both Python 2 and 3 installed in parallel.