# mamba

## Summary

+ **Module Name:** mamba
+ **Support Level:** Secondary Support
+ **Software Access Level:** Open Access
+ **Home Page:** [https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba](https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba)

## Software Description

Mamba is a reimplementation of the conda package manager in C++.

- parallel downloading of repository data and package files using multi-threading
- libsolv for much faster dependency solving, a state of the art library used in the RPM package manager of Red Hat, Fedora and OpenSUSE
- core parts of mamba are implemented in C++ for maximum efficiency

At the same time, mamba utilize the same command line parser, package
installation and deinstallation code and transaction verification
routines as conda to stay as compatible as possible.
## General Linux

To load this module for use in a Linux environment, you can run the command:

	module load mamba

Depending on where you are working, there may be more than one version of mamba available.
To see which modules are available for loading you can run:

	module avail mamba