diff --git a/build/bin/sage-print-system-package-command b/build/bin/sage-print-system-package-command
index e03f275aa40..75f9729fd9f 100755
--- a/build/bin/sage-print-system-package-command
+++ b/build/bin/sage-print-system-package-command
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ do
         --quiet)
             QUIET=yes
             ;;
+        --isolated)
+            ISOLATED=yes
+            ;;
         -*)
             echo >&2 "$0: unknown option $1"
             exit 1
@@ -67,12 +70,7 @@ if [ "$system" = auto ]; then
     fi
 fi
 if [ "$SPKG" = "yes" ]; then
-    case $system in
-        mamba)
-            base_system=conda;;
-        *)
-            base_system=$system;;
-    esac
+    base_system=${system%%-*}
     system_packages=$(echo $(sage-get-system-packages $base_system $*))
 else
     system_packages="$*"
@@ -149,15 +147,20 @@ case $system:$command in
     opensuse*:install)
         [ -n "$system_packages" ] && print_shell_command "${SUDO}zypper install $system_packages"
         ;;
-    *conda*:install)
+    conda-micromamba*:install)
         [ "$YES" = yes ] && options="$options --yes"
-        [ -n "$system_packages" ] && print_shell_command "conda install $options $system_packages"
+        [ "$ISOLATED" = yes ] && options="$options --no-rc"
+        [ -n "$system_packages" ] && print_shell_command "micromamba install $options $system_packages"
         ;;
-    mamba*:install)
+    conda-mamba*:install)
         [ "$YES" = yes ] && options="$options --yes"
         [ "$QUIET" = yes ] && options="$options --no-banner"
         [ -n "$system_packages" ] && print_shell_command "mamba install $options $system_packages"
         ;;
+    *conda*:install)
+        [ "$YES" = yes ] && options="$options --yes"
+        [ -n "$system_packages" ] && print_shell_command "conda install $options $system_packages"
+        ;;
     homebrew*:install)
         [ -n "$system_packages" ] && print_shell_command "brew install $system_packages"
         ;;
diff --git a/build/make/Makefile.in b/build/make/Makefile.in
index 370d436bb2c..147ac4222b0 100644
--- a/build/make/Makefile.in
+++ b/build/make/Makefile.in
@@ -704,19 +704,30 @@ $(1)-$(4)-no-deps:
 	    echo "Error: The installation tree $(4) has been disabled" 2>&1; \
 	    echo "$$($(4)_DISABLED_MESSAGE)" 2>&1; \
 	    exit 1; \
-	elif [ -x '$$(SAGE_ROOT)/build/pkgs/$(1)/spkg-install' ]; then \
-	    cd '$$(SAGE_ROOT)/build/pkgs/$(1)' && \
+	else \
+	  cd '$$(SAGE_ROOT)/build/pkgs/$(1)' && \
 		. '$$(SAGE_ROOT)/src/bin/sage-src-env-config' && \
 		. '$$(SAGE_ROOT)/src/bin/sage-env-config' && \
 		. '$$(SAGE_ROOT)/src/bin/sage-env' && \
 		. '$$(SAGE_ROOT)/build/bin/sage-build-env-config' && \
 		. '$$(SAGE_ROOT)/build/bin/sage-build-env' && \
-		SAGE_SPKG_WHEELS=$$($(4))/var/lib/sage/wheels \
-		SAGE_INST_LOCAL=$$($(4)) \
-		sage-logger -p 'SAGE_CHECK=$$(SAGE_CHECK_$(1)) $$(SAGE_ROOT)/build/pkgs/$(1)/spkg-install' '$$(SAGE_LOGS)/$(1)-$(2).log' && \
-	    rm -f "$$($(4))/$(SPKG_INST_RELDIR)/$(1)"-* && \
-	    touch "$$($(4))/$(SPKG_INST_RELDIR)/$(1)-$(2)"; \
-	else ( \
+	  if [ -x '$$(SAGE_ROOT)/build/pkgs/$(1)/spkg-install' ]; then \
+	      SAGE_SPKG_WHEELS=$$($(4))/var/lib/sage/wheels \
+	      SAGE_INST_LOCAL=$$($(4)) \
+	      sage-logger -p 'SAGE_CHECK=$$(SAGE_CHECK_$(1)) $$(SAGE_ROOT)/build/pkgs/$(1)/spkg-install' '$$(SAGE_LOGS)/$(1)-$(2).log' || exit 1; \
+	  else \
+	   INSTALL_COMMAND=$$$$(sage-print-system-package-command conda-micromamba --yes --quiet --spkg install $(1)); \
+	   if [ -n "$$$$INSTALL_COMMAND" ]; then \
+	        if [ -d "$$$$SAGE_CONDA_PREFIX" ]; then \
+	                export MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX="$$$$SAGE_CONDA_PREFIX"; \
+	                export CONDA_PREFIX="$$$$SAGE_CONDA_PREFIX"; \
+	                export CONDARC="$(SAGE_ROOT)/condarc.yml"; \
+	                eval $$$$INSTALL_COMMAND; \
+	        else ( \
+		        echo "Error: $(1) is a conda package, but the environment created by SPKG conda is not present" \
+		   ) | sage-logger -p 'cat; exit 1' '$$(SAGE_LOGS)/$(1)-$(2).log'; \
+		fi; \
+	   else ( \
 	    echo; \
 	    echo "Note: $(1) is a dummy package that the Sage distribution uses"; \
 	    echo "to provide information about equivalent system packages."; \
@@ -729,6 +740,10 @@ $(1)-$(4)-no-deps:
 	    echo; \
 	    echo "Error: $(1) is a dummy package and "; \
 	    echo "cannot be installed using the Sage distribution." ) | sage-logger -p 'cat; exit 1' '$$(SAGE_LOGS)/$(1)-$(2).log'; \
+	   fi; \
+	  fi; \
+	  rm -f "$$($(4))/$(SPKG_INST_RELDIR)/$(1)"-* && \
+	  touch "$$($(4))/$(SPKG_INST_RELDIR)/$(1)-$(2)"; \
 	fi
 
 $(1)-no-deps: $(1)-$(4)-no-deps
diff --git a/build/pkgs/conda/SPKG.rst b/build/pkgs/conda/SPKG.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..06b31f26b69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/pkgs/conda/SPKG.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+conda: Installs conda-forge packages in an isolated environment
+===============================================================
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+conda-forge is a community-led collection of recipes, build infrastructure
+and distributions for the conda package manager.
+
+mamba is a fast cross-platform package manager, a compatible
+reimplementation of the conda package manager in C++.
+
+micromamba is a tiny version of the mamba package manager. It is a statically linked
+C++ executable with a separate command line interface. It does not need a base
+environment and does not come with a default version of Python.
+
+Installing this script package installs ``micromamba`` in ``$SAGE_LOCAL/bin``
+and creates an isolated conda environment within ``$SAGE_LOCAL/var/lib/sage/conda``.
+
+
+License
+-------
+
+BSD-3-Clause
+
+
+Upstream Contact
+----------------
+
+https://conda-forge.org/
+
+https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba
+
+https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/micromamba.html
diff --git a/build/pkgs/conda/spkg-install b/build/pkgs/conda/spkg-install
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..c182bfd1c48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/pkgs/conda/spkg-install
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+set -e
+
+ARCH=$(uname -m)
+OS=$(uname)
+
+# Adapted from micro.mamba.pm/install.sh, removed bashisms
+if [ "$OS" = "Linux" ]; then
+    PLATFORM="linux"
+    if [ "$ARCH" = "aarch64" ]; then
+        ARCH="aarch64";
+    elif [ "$ARCH" = "ppc64le" ]; then
+        ARCH="ppc64le";
+    else
+        ARCH="64";
+    fi
+fi
+
+if [ "$OS" = "Darwin" ]; then
+    PLATFORM="osx";
+    if [ "$ARCH" = "arm64" ]; then
+        ARCH="arm64";
+    else
+        ARCH="64"
+    fi
+fi
+
+set -x
+sage-download-file "https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/$PLATFORM-$ARCH/latest" | tar -xvj -C "$SAGE_LOCAL" bin/micromamba
+export MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX="$SAGE_LOCAL/var/lib/sage/conda"
+export CONDARC="$SAGE_ROOT/condarc.yml"
+micromamba create --yes --prefix "$MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX" -c conda-forge
diff --git a/build/pkgs/conda/type b/build/pkgs/conda/type
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..134d9bc32d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/pkgs/conda/type
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+optional
diff --git a/build/pkgs/ffmpeg/dependencies b/build/pkgs/ffmpeg/dependencies
index 0fb459e652e..a34a7e56db3 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/ffmpeg/dependencies
+++ b/build/pkgs/ffmpeg/dependencies
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mamba_forge
+conda
diff --git a/build/pkgs/git/dependencies b/build/pkgs/git/dependencies
index 0fb459e652e..a34a7e56db3 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/git/dependencies
+++ b/build/pkgs/git/dependencies
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mamba_forge
+conda
diff --git a/build/pkgs/github_cli/dependencies b/build/pkgs/github_cli/dependencies
index 0fb459e652e..a34a7e56db3 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/github_cli/dependencies
+++ b/build/pkgs/github_cli/dependencies
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mamba_forge
+conda
diff --git a/build/pkgs/imagemagick/dependencies b/build/pkgs/imagemagick/dependencies
index 0fb459e652e..a34a7e56db3 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/imagemagick/dependencies
+++ b/build/pkgs/imagemagick/dependencies
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mamba_forge
+conda
diff --git a/build/pkgs/info/dependencies b/build/pkgs/info/dependencies
index 0fb459e652e..a34a7e56db3 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/info/dependencies
+++ b/build/pkgs/info/dependencies
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mamba_forge
+conda
diff --git a/build/pkgs/latte_int/dependencies b/build/pkgs/latte_int/dependencies
deleted file mode 100644
index 412db1855de..00000000000
--- a/build/pkgs/latte_int/dependencies
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-$(MP_LIBRARY) ntl 4ti2 cddlib lidia
-
-----------
-All lines of this file are ignored except the first.
diff --git a/build/pkgs/pandoc/dependencies b/build/pkgs/pandoc/dependencies
index 0fb459e652e..a34a7e56db3 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/pandoc/dependencies
+++ b/build/pkgs/pandoc/dependencies
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mamba_forge
+conda
diff --git a/build/pkgs/pdf2svg/dependencies b/build/pkgs/pdf2svg/dependencies
index 0fb459e652e..a34a7e56db3 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/pdf2svg/dependencies
+++ b/build/pkgs/pdf2svg/dependencies
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mamba_forge
+conda
diff --git a/build/pkgs/rubiks/dependencies b/build/pkgs/rubiks/dependencies
index 0fb459e652e..a34a7e56db3 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/rubiks/dependencies
+++ b/build/pkgs/rubiks/dependencies
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mamba_forge
+conda
diff --git a/build/pkgs/texlive/dependencies b/build/pkgs/texlive/dependencies
index 0fb459e652e..a34a7e56db3 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/texlive/dependencies
+++ b/build/pkgs/texlive/dependencies
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mamba_forge
+conda
diff --git a/build/pkgs/valgrind/dependencies b/build/pkgs/valgrind/dependencies
index 0fb459e652e..a34a7e56db3 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/valgrind/dependencies
+++ b/build/pkgs/valgrind/dependencies
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mamba_forge
+conda
diff --git a/src/bin/sage-env b/src/bin/sage-env
index a7da60df28f..aa429c2d806 100644
--- a/src/bin/sage-env
+++ b/src/bin/sage-env
@@ -251,6 +251,12 @@ if [ -z "${SAGE_ORIG_PATH_SET}" ]; then
     SAGE_ORIG_PATH_SET=True && export SAGE_ORIG_PATH_SET
 fi
 if [ -n "$SAGE_LOCAL" ]; then
+    # https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/micromamba.html
+    SAGE_CONDA_PREFIX="$SAGE_LOCAL/var/lib/sage/conda"
+    if [ -d "$SAGE_CONDA_PREFIX/conda-meta" ]; then
+        # We do not use the activation script; we only want bin in PATH, nothing else.
+        export PATH="$SAGE_CONDA_PREFIX/bin:$PATH"
+    fi
     export PATH="$SAGE_LOCAL/bin:$PATH"
 fi
 if [ -n "$SAGE_VENV" ]; then