Conda / miniconda / anaconda

• Programs that manages other programs, specificaly for python

• A forver power struggle between slight changes in package/library versions

• Without conda, you will definitely bloat your computer with 3 different versions of python

• Very important to have:

  1. Virtiual envionrments - virtual partition which isolates different paackages that might otherwise confict

  2. jupyter lab / jupyter notebook - interactive interface for python. very helpful for beginnners

Installing Miniforge3

In the repository:

1. Scroll down to the Download section

2. Find your operating system (OS)

3. Click the link

4. Copy the downloaded file to your ~/Programs folder

   1. Make one if you haven’t! (mkdir -p ~/Programs)

5. Run the installation script with bash <Miniforge-link>.sh

6. Choose your installation directory as ~/Programs/miniforge3

By default, you start in the base environment, which looks like:

(base) username@computer:~ username$