# Gneiss Balance Taxonomy

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/gneiss-balance-taxonomy/21798
**Category:** General Discussion
**Tags:** gneiss
**Created:** [January 6, 2022, 12:40am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/gneiss-balance-taxonomy/21798 "2022-01-06T00:40:26Z")
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### Author: ![mortonjt](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/mortonjt/32/3488_2.png) [@mortonjt](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/mortonjt)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/gneiss-balance-taxonomy/21798/2 "2022-01-06T01:04:36Z")

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Hi @rmbn - I recommend checking out the `conda env create` command, which will allow you to install multiple conda environments. That way, you don't need to worry about overwriting your old environments, and you can always toggle back and forth between environments with `conda activate`

For instance, you can have the following two conda environments

Songbird / Qurro environments

```auto
wget https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2020.6-py36-linux-conda.yml
conda env create -n qiime2-2020.8 --file qiime2-2020.6-py36-linux-conda.yml

```

Gneiss envrionment

```auto
wget https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2019.10-py36-linux-conda.yml
conda env create -n qiime2-2019.10 --file qiime2-2019.10-py36-linux-conda.yml

```

RE Virtual Box, that solution is fine for older Windows versions - but you may want to check out the [WSL install instructions](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-on-windows-subsystem-for-linux/12806) if you have a newer computer. From what I have observed, it is _much_ faster than Virtual Box.

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