# Pointers to new starter environment yml

**URL:** <https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/pointers-to-new-starter-environment-yml/3498>\
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**Created:** [June 7, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/pointers-to-new-starter-environment-yml/3498 "2023-06-07T17:51:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![mktippett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@mktippett](https://discourse.pangeo.io/u/mktippett)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/pointers-to-new-starter-environment-yml/3498/1 "2023-06-07T17:51:09Z")

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My python environment has reached an evolutionary dead end with updates failing or breaking things. Any suggestions for a pangeo-adjacent, yml file or new environment procedure? I use conda but what is the mamba that I hear of? 🙏

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**Author:** ![rabernat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.pangeo.io/rabernat/32/22_2.png) [@rabernat](https://discourse.pangeo.io/u/rabernat)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/pointers-to-new-starter-environment-yml/3498/2 "2023-06-08T15:33:35Z")

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👋 Hi Mike!

We maintain the “official” Pangeo environment here:

> <https://github.com/pangeo-data/pangeo-docker-images/blob/master/pangeo-notebook/environment.yml>

You should definitely use mamba. It’s a drop-in replacement for conda that is much faster.

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**Author:** ![mktippett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@mktippett](https://discourse.pangeo.io/u/mktippett)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/pointers-to-new-starter-environment-yml/3498/3 "2023-06-08T17:58:23Z")

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That’s great. I have imagined a pangeo distribution that curates packages and versions like Fedora/debian/etc do with linux. I am old enough to remember the first Slackware distributions.