Installing legacy fenics via anaconda - 10+ hours to resolve env

Hi everyone,
I am taking fenics up again after a break and would like to run some code I wrote way back in legacy fenics.

I’m following the install instructions:
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sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fenics-packages/fenics
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fenics

leads to install conflicts with ufl/ffc installed both system wide and locally and will fail to import certain elements such as VectorElement.
On the other hand

conda create -n fenicsproject -c conda-forge fenics

with a Python 3.8 install has been trying to resolve the environment for about 10 hours.

Any idea on how to proceed, especially with Anaconda ?

Regards,
M

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