diff --git a/files/system_condarc b/files/system_condarc
index 54012c6b2006f4fa37fe704ef0da52e4a32a9d24..d89af5a2fda91606f9fa3dba615812def902fa5d 100644
--- a/files/system_condarc
+++ b/files/system_condarc
@@ -1,2 +1,9 @@
 pinned_packages:
-  - defaults::conda
+  - anaconda-main::conda
+  - anaconda-main::conda-build
+channel_alias: https://artifactory.esss.lu.se/artifactory
+channels:
+  - ics-conda
+  - conda-forge
+  - anaconda-main
+auto_update_conda: False
diff --git a/files/user_condarc b/files/user_condarc
deleted file mode 100644
index 856c200e7e17bc870c49dc2488e663c05b61507c..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/files/user_condarc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-auto_update_conda: False
-channels:
-  - conda-forge
-  - defaults
diff --git a/tasks/main.yml b/tasks/main.yml
index 07c5a44002e63e7bc816c14ec063e61d1c3a093f..ccaa343bcc4e970222c66c7857c3cb8140a5cd54 100644
--- a/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/tasks/main.yml
@@ -83,18 +83,13 @@
     dest: /etc/profile.d/conda.sh
     state: link
 
-- name: copy condarc files
+- name: copy condarc file
   copy:
-    src: "{{ item.src }}"
-    dest: "{{ item.dest }}/.condarc"
+    src: system_condarc
+    dest: /opt/conda/.condarc
     owner: conda
     group: users
     mode: 0644
-  with_items:
-    - src: user_condarc
-      dest: /home/conda
-    - src: system_condarc
-      dest: /opt/conda
 
 # See https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/6576
 - name: create empty environments.txt due to conda bug