title: cloning a virtual env into another directory using conda
body: <p>I am working on a shared server and trying to clone a virtual env <strong>myenv</strong> into my <strong>home directory</strong>. </p>
  
  <p>Here are some facts:</p>
  
  <pre><code>myenv         /path to my home directory/my profile/.conda/envs/myenv
  root        * /opt/conda/4.6.14
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I currently do not have permissions to install packages into the install area <code>/opt/conda/4.6.14</code> and so I am trying to clone the <code>myenv</code> into my home directory using this command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>conda create -n myenv_clone -p /path to my home directory/myprofile --clone=/opt/conda/4.6.14
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, this gives me the error:
  conda create error : <code>--prefix not allowed with -n</code></p>
  
  <p>My conda info output :</p>
  
  <p>Current conda install:</p>
  
  <pre><code>           platform : linux-64
        conda version : 4.3.16
     conda is private : False
    conda-env version : 4.3.16
  conda-build version : not installed
       python version : 2.7.16.final.0
     requests version : 2.21.0
     root environment : /opt/conda/4.6.14  (read only)
  default environment : /opt/conda/4.6.14
     envs directories : /home/bridge/c/sheth7/.conda/envs
                        /opt/conda/4.6.14/envs
        package cache : /home/bridge/c/sheth7/.conda/pkgs
         channel URLs : https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/linux-64
                        https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/noarch
                        https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/r/linux-64
                        https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/r/noarch
                        https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/linux-64
                        https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/noarch
          config file : /home/bridge/c/sheth7/.condarc
         offline mode : False
           user-agent : conda/4.3.16 requests/2.21.0 CPython/2.7.16 Linux
  </code></pre>