The latest versions of Miniconda 3 and Anaconda 3 are now available to all EECS Research Servers and Managed Linux Desktops, as environment modules.
We have been recommending against the usage of anaconda in our infrastructure for quite a while, since it was breaking the user’s desktop environments on the desktops when it was used incorrectly, making it hard for the users to recover from that bad state. Using Anaconda and Miniconda as environment modules, gives more control to the user on how, when and where anaconda environments will be initialised, removes the need to initialise the user’s shell with anaconda and removes the complexity of manually modifying your SHELL via the .bashrc file.