# Getting PyCall to use the conda python on juliabox

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** pycall, juliabox\
**Created:** [March 26, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/getting-pycall-to-use-the-conda-python-on-juliabox/9997 "2018-03-26T21:25:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![datnamer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/datnamer/32/3471_2.png) [@datnamer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/datnamer)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/getting-pycall-to-use-the-conda-python-on-juliabox/9997/1 "2018-03-26T21:25:41Z")

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How can I get the PyCall to use the conda python on juliabox?

The readme seems to indicated I should

> ENV[“PYTHON”]=“”

and then

> Pkg.build(“PyCall”)

But pkg.build isn’t available on juliabox.

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**Author:** ![avik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/avik/32/17_2.png) [@avik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/avik)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/getting-pycall-to-use-the-conda-python-on-juliabox/9997/2 "2018-03-27T13:56:54Z")

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The PyCall available on Juliabox is bound to the system default python on `/usr/bin/python`. And there is no (easy) way to change that.

What is it that you actually wanted to do? Any reason why you want conda in particular?

Regards

Avik

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**Author:** ![datnamer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/datnamer/32/3471_2.png) [@datnamer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/datnamer)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/getting-pycall-to-use-the-conda-python-on-juliabox/9997/3 "2018-03-27T14:03:21Z")

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Hi,  
Thanks for your reply.

I’d like to download opencv using conda.jl (which seemed to work) and utilize it through pycall.