Installation on new MacOS processors M1 and M2 with conda

[Didou09]

Installation instructions:

Python needs to be installed with architecture x86_64 (same as intel):

arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/brew install [email protected]

python -c "import platform; print(platform.architecture())"

Then create a virtual environment wit conda

# create environment with good architecture
CONDA_SUBDIR=osx-64 conda create -n myenv python=3.9

# activate environment
conda activate myenv

# check
python -c "import platform; print(platform.architecture())"

should return: ('64bit', '')

Then install desired package

CONDA_SUBDIR=osx-64 conda install package_name

# deactivate environment if desired
conda deactivate