Dear CLAIX Users
As you may have noticed, access to the “default” Anaconda repositories (repo.anaconda.com and others hosted at anaconda.com) has been blocked by the firewall on the HPC cluster. This action is necessary because RWTH is not permitted to use the these repositories due to licensing issues.
We understand that blocking the Anaconda domain may disrupt your current workflows. To mitigate this, we set conda-forge as the default channel in /etc/conda/condarc. If you still encounter issues, please check the .condarc file in your home directory and make sure to remove “defaults”, “r”, and “main” from the channel list.
For new Conda users, we suggest using Miniforge, as this distribution uses conda-forge as its default repository.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you require assistance, please reach out to servicedesk@itc.rwth-aachen.de.
PS: For a brief time, we accidentally blocked anaconda.org. We have corrected this issue.
