# Accessing swan software stack from lxplus

**URL:** <https://swan-community.web.cern.ch/t/accessing-swan-software-stack-from-lxplus/832>\
**Category:** Jupyter Notebooks\
**Created:** [March 28, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://swan-community.web.cern.ch/t/accessing-swan-software-stack-from-lxplus/832 "2025-03-28T13:30:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![hahamdao](https://swan-community.web.cern.ch/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@hahamdao](https://swan-community.web.cern.ch/u/hahamdao)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://swan-community.web.cern.ch/t/accessing-swan-software-stack-from-lxplus/832/1 "2025-03-28T13:30:51Z")

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I know someone have asked about offering better IDE like VSCode on the web as a complement to SWAN. But my question is there a way to just specify one of SWAN software stacks like python2 or cuda as kernel or a jupyter server to a notebook running in lxplus ?

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**Author:** ![etejedor](https://swan-community.web.cern.ch/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e79b87/32.png) [@etejedor](https://swan-community.web.cern.ch/u/etejedor)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://swan-community.web.cern.ch/t/accessing-swan-software-stack-from-lxplus/832/2 "2025-03-28T14:26:00Z")

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Hello,

We are working on a new feature to create custom environments – e.g. with conda. Is this what you are asking for?

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**Author:** ![hahamdao](https://swan-community.web.cern.ch/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@hahamdao](https://swan-community.web.cern.ch/u/hahamdao)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://swan-community.web.cern.ch/t/accessing-swan-software-stack-from-lxplus/832/3 "2025-03-28T15:28:50Z")

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Hi thanks for the reply,  
No i’m asking if one of the already existing environments can be used outside the web browser in lxplus while using vscode for instance or something like that if that make any sense.

thank you

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**Author:** ![etejedor](https://swan-community.web.cern.ch/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e79b87/32.png) [@etejedor](https://swan-community.web.cern.ch/u/etejedor)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://swan-community.web.cern.ch/t/accessing-swan-software-stack-from-lxplus/832/4 "2025-03-28T16:11:09Z")

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Yes, LCG releases can be used from lxplus, you can check their path in SWAN (variable LCG\_VIEW), then source their setup.sh.