NRI conda environment: mdssdiff tool in conda/analysis3-24.11 module

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The conda/analysis3-24.11 environment has been deprecated and is no longer available.

You can find all the packages in a conda enviroment using conda list and use grep to see if the package exists.

For example

$ module use /g/data/xp65/public/modules/
$ module load conda/analysis3-26.01
Loading conda/analysis3-26.01
  Loading requirement: singularity
$ conda list | grep mdssdiff
$

I can tell you though that mdssdiff is not any any current released conda environments.

The installed packages are defined in this file

And if you clone the repo and search through the history of the file, the mdssdiff package was removed and never put back

$ git log -S "mdssdiff" -- environments/analysis3/environment.yml
commit 9b52a7342c018d438b3a2fadf0bf8377ab20dae0
Author: rbeucher <romain.beucher@anu.edu.au>
Date:   Sat Jan 25 18:58:17 2025 +1000

    Remove COECMS packages

commit a77c3fe3a9b3f903b092a47329730522d257b34c
Author: rbeucher <romain.beucher@anu.edu.au>
Date:   Fri Jan 24 13:17:07 2025 +1000

    Create analysis 25.02

commit 2027a2fcb720861895fff653abb6f93baa56b2a5
Author: rbeucher <romain.beucher@anu.edu.au>
Date:   Mon Jan 20 10:19:46 2025 +1000

    Remove mdssdiff

commit 40f5482ccfbff50ddc8f871db4336261bb7cdf59
Author: rbeucher <romain.beucher@anu.edu.au>
Date:   Wed Nov 20 16:16:44 2024 +1000

    Add Analysis3
$

I wrote mdssdiff, when I was part of the CMS team, but it is no longer maintained.

Unless someone else decides to pick it up, maintain it and publish a conda package your best path is to copy the approach I suggested for others who wanted to use another unmaintained package I wrote, which is to create your own virtual environment on top of conda/analysis3