Merge pull request #1234 from LourensVeen/issue_1183_detect_conda_base_env

Check for conda base env and refuse to install into it

Author: LourensVeen

support/setup/environment.sh

@@ -30,8 +30,10 @@ detect_environments() {
     fi
 
     if [ "a${CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV}" != "a" ] ; then
-        ENV_TYPE="conda"
-        ENV_NAME="${CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV}"
+        if [ "a${CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV}" != "abase" ] ; then
+            ENV_TYPE="conda"
+            ENV_NAME="${CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV}"
+        fi
     fi
 }
 

support/setup/help.sh

@@ -104,8 +104,9 @@ print_environment_step() {
 
 To install any packages, you need to create and activate a Conda environment
 or a Python virtualenv. If you have an environment into which you'd like to
-install AMUSE, you should activate it now. To create a new Conda environment,
-use
+install AMUSE, then you should activate it now.
+
+To create a new Conda environment, use
 
     conda create --channel conda-forge --override-channels -n Amuse-env
 
@@ -115,6 +116,10 @@ Then you activate it using
 
 You can name the environment anything you like instead of my-amuse-env.
 
+Note that installing packages other than conda itself in the (base) environment
+is not supported by conda, and this installer will refuse to do so. Please make
+a specific conda environment for your project as described above.
+
 To create a Python virtualenv, use
 
     python3 -m venv venv