Setting up third party sotware
As a general rule, software that is not available in the debian repositories has to be installed by yourself inside your Account.
Some choice software (Citrix Workspace App, webex, zoom, VS code, anydesk, slack, matrix, and withsecure) is installed in your Desktop installation.
conda
You can download the conda-forge installer and install it locally yourself: https://conda-forge.org/download/
This should already have the correct channels, but run these commands after installation (and initialization) to be sure:
conda config --remove channels defaults conda config --add channels conda-forge conda config --set channel_priority strict
(don't mind any error messages from the first command)
zotero
Please install locally, see the “Official Tarball” section at https://www.zotero.org/support/installation.
While this says “Ubuntu”, the instructions should also work for Debian. As you're installing in your own account, please replace the “/opt/zotero” path e.g. with “~/.opt/zotero”.
Gromacs
Probably the same, https://manual.gromacs.org/2024.4/install-guide/index.html except if the science IT guys can come up with a way to produce an installation package.