How to install conda / python and avoid space problemss, the install wil be saved to sgoinfre and moved back to goinfre for speed.

This is just a fix of mine and i have no clue if this will work as intended, be carefull.

As you know sgoinfre and goinfre have space, and we need space, but what's the difference ?
goinfre is on the physical computer, and will disapear when you change places. sgoinfre is on the servers and will not dissapear.

You can install conda on sgoinfre and never have problems but IT WILL BE SLOOOOOW.
My solution ? copy the files from sgoinfre to goinfre every day (go have a coffee i guess :) ) and have the path point to ~/goinfre/miniconda so it will work.

First install miniconda in goinfre (say yes to everything, including conda init):

cd ~/goinfre
wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -p $(pwd)/miniconda

Now we need to add conda to the path, so we add the following line to .zshrc (or.bashrc) above the # >>> conda initialize >>> line: change YOUR_USERNAME with your real username!!

export PATH=$PATH:/mnt/nfs/homes/YOUR_USERNAME/goinfre/miniconda/bin

Then install the python libraries you need:
JUST INSTALL WHAT YOU NEED, THIS IS A DATASCIENCE AI INSTALL FOR EXAMPLE

conda install pytorch torchvision torchaudio cpuonly -c pytorch
conda install -c conda-forge jupyterlab
conda install -c conda-forge numpy
pip   install    pillow

If you get a conda command not found either the install failed, or you forgot to restart your terminal.

Now we copy the install files to sgoinfre so they dont get deleted. The progress % is wacky but it should go to 2-4GB and take about 10 minutes.
If you install new packages later and dont want them to dissapear when u change computers you will have to run this again, it will only copy modified files and wont take long the second time.

rsync -ah --info=progress2 ~/goinfre/miniconda ~/sgoinfre

and now you can work as you like. If you go to a new pc copy your files from sgoinfre to goinfre again with;

rsync -ah --info=progress2 ~/sgoinfre/miniconda ~/goinfre

this should take about 3 minutes

If your install is good and running which python should output blabla/goinfre/blabla