...
Without intervention, and if your’e not using local environments, pip install -U <package> will install packages into $HOME/.local, which is discouraged for the reasons mentioned above. To change the default install location, we recommend to put something like the following into your .bashrc:
...
By default, conda will install package data and environments into $HOME/.conda. This should be avoided for the reasons mentioned above. To change this the global default, execute the following commands, which will set the corresponding paths in your $HOME/.condarc :
...