diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 7dcd56142..d53a9a632 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ jobs:
         # $CONDA is an environment variable pointing to the root of the miniconda directory
         echo $CONDA/bin >> $GITHUB_PATH
         conda --version
+        conda info
     - name: Make sure conda is updated
       run: |
         conda update conda
diff --git a/dependencies_core.yml b/dependencies_core.yml
index 5f0b7c13f..40bac0420 100644
--- a/dependencies_core.yml
+++ b/dependencies_core.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 name: ptypy_core
+channels:
+  - conda-forge
 dependencies:
   - python
   - numpy