Installing CLI Tools (like htop)

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Just documenting a response to some of the discussion in the review about the difficulty of installing htop (as an example). It was suggested one could install some of these tools via the conda wrapping. Default conda suggestion doesn’t work out of the box. I was using uv to manage my python environments. Maybe the suggestion is that I should be using mamba instead of uv, but trying to force which tools I use in addition to forcing use of python seems a bit much.

(python3) jovyan@jupyter-saydjari:~$ which conda
(python3) jovyan@jupyter-saydjari:~$ conda install htop
bash: conda: command not found

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As noted in the documentations, we are using micromamba as the conda manager. To add a package to the base environment, you do:

micromamba install htop -p /opt/envs/base

We will ensure that more information is added to the docs.

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