Cloning the base working environment in Anaconda?

Question

My base working environment works perfectly with several key existing packages, however, one package has has had some very useful updates that I want to test out. How can I create a clone of my base working environment so that I can avoid touching the base working environment? For whatever reason, the clone button in Anaconda is greyed out when I try to clone the base working environment:

Answer 1

Might be because an exact clone of base is not possible as conda is always only installed in base . You can however simply go into a terminal and do

conda create -n baseClone --clone base

which will create a cloned env called baseClone with all packages from base except those that cannot be cloned (eg conda )