Anvil App Server not using conda or seeing installed package

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What I’m trying to do:
Running the app server on a fresh install of ubuntu 20.10. I am installing a python package for anvil to make use of.

What I’ve tried and what’s not working:
For some reason anvil is not seeing the package. I noticed a few things:

-When I have a conda virtual envrionment activate and run the app server, it is still using the base python version. I know this as the versions are different and I check the version from the shell.

-When I install a package to the base python, it is not available to the app server. I know this as I get an error, I also list out all of the packages from the interactive shell and I do not see it installed. If I run python directly I see the package as expected.

Where is the app server running base python from and how can I control this?

Code Sample:
[ERROR anvil.app-server.run] Error report from client code:
AnvilWrappedError: No module named ‘google.cloud’
Traceback:

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Fixed, not entirely sure how as I reiminaged the server. In retrospect I suspect I had installed app sever globally and that command was “taking over” any local instance, thus running in the wrong python environment.

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