How to install a package file

[Tyler Wang]

Hi all,

I'm new to conda. We want to build conda packages to install them in the VMs.

For example we want to have a package specifically for xgboost users. We want have these in the package:

papermill 

pandas 

pandas-profiling 

plotly 

requests 

scikit-learn 

scipy 

google-api-core 

urllib3 

scikit-learn 

"xgboost==1.1.1" 

After building a new package which contains all above, we have a new package named xgboost-test-1.0.20221206-py37_0.tar.bz2.

Then there are two way I figure out to install:
1. Copy the whole folder which has linux-64/ and noarch/ to the new environment and run `conda install -c /path/to/channel/linux-64 xgboost-test`

2. Only copy the new package to channel/linux-64 in a new folder, use `conda index channel/` to setup a new channel, and install it using `conda install --use-local -c /path/to/channel/linux-64 xgboost-test`

Is there any other way I can only move this new package to another computer and install it over there? The two way I know are not idealistic to me. I don't think it's convenient to setup a channel every time. I thought there is a way which I can simply install the new package file, that's more quick and straight forward. 

Thanks for your help!

Best regards,

Tyler