Review the system requirements listed below before installing Anaconda Individual Edition. If you don’t want the hundreds of packages included with Anaconda, you can install Miniconda, amini version of Anaconda that includes just conda, its dependencies, and Python.
System requirements
- License: Free use and redistribution under the terms of the End User License Agreement - Anaconda® Individual Edition.
- Operating system: Windows 8 or newer, 64-bit macOS 10.13+, or Linux, including Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS 6+, and others.
- If your operating system is older than what is currently supported, you can find older versions of the Anaconda installers in our archive that might work for you. See Using Anaconda on older operating systems for version recommendations.
- System architecture: Windows- 64-bit x86, 32-bit x86; MacOS- 64-bit x86; Linux- 64-bit x86, 64-bit Power8/Power9.
- Minimum 5 GB disk space to download and install.
On Windows, macOS, and Linux, it is best to install Anaconda for the local user,which does not require administrator permissions and is the most robust type ofinstallation. However, if you need to, you can install Anaconda system wide,which does require administrator permissions.
This tutorial will help you to install Anaconda for Mac OS. Anaconda is both a package manager, python distribution and is incredibly useful for data tasks as it comes bundled with many scientific packages including sci-kit learn, SciPy, Pandas and NumPy. Additionally it’s the recommended method for installing Jupyter Notebooks. Uncheck both checked options and click on Finish button, and your Anaconda installation is complete. Now, let’s access Anaconda Prompt. Go to Search/Run and type Anaconda Prompt and hit enter. A black window like below will open. This is Anaconda Prompt. We will now start jupyter notebook from anaconda prompt.
Silent mode install
You can use silent mode toautomatically accept default settings and have no screen prompts appear duringinstallation.
Using Anaconda on older operating systems
We recommend upgrading your operating system. Most OS that are no longersupported in the latest Anaconda are no longer getting security updates.Upgrading your OS allows you to get the latest packages, performanceimprovements, bug fixes, etc.
To use Anaconda on older operating systems, download from our archive.You will not be able to use conda to update or install packages beyondthe Anaconda version noted in the table below, unless you limit it toversions available at the time that particular version of Anacondawas released.You can see what was available by checking the package table archives.
| Operating system | How to install Anaconda |
|---|---|
| macOS 10.10-10.12; Windows 7 | Use the command line or graphical installers for Anaconda versions 2019.10 and earlier. Download from our archive. |
| macOS 10.9 | Use the command line or graphical installers for Anaconda versions5.1 and earlier. Note Qt and other packages released after Anaconda Distribution 5.1 (February 15th, 2018)may not work on macOS 10.9, so it may be necessary to not update certain packages beyond this point. |
| macOS 10.7 and 10.8 | Use the command line installers for Anaconda versions 4.2 and earlier. |
| macOS 10.5 and 10.6 | Use the command line installers for Anaconda versions 1.8 and earlier. |
| Windows XP | Use Anaconda versions 2.2 and earlier. |
| Centos5 (or equivalent) | Use Anaconda versions 4.3 and earlier. |
Installing Anaconda on a non-networked machine (air gap)
- Obtain a local copy of the appropriate Anaconda installer for the non-networked machine. You can copy the Anaconda installer to the target machine using many different methods including a portable hard drive, USB drive, or CD.
- After copying the installer to the non-networked machine, follow the detailed installation instructions for your operating system.
Note
You can install offline copies of both docs.anaconda.com and enterprise-docs.anaconda.com by installing the conda package anaconda-docs: condainstallanaconda-docs
You can install offline copies of documentation for many of Anaconda’s open-source packages by installing the conda package anaconda-oss-docs: condainstallanaconda-oss-docs
Other ways to get Anaconda or Miniconda
You can find the official Anaconda or Miniconda AMIs on the AWS Marketplace.
You can find the official Anaconda and Miniconda Docker images on Docker Hub.
If you have a CDH cluster, you can install the Anaconda parcel using Cloudera Manager. The Anaconda parcel provides a static installation of Anaconda, based on Python 2.7, that can be used with Python and PySpark jobs on the cluster.
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Troubleshooting
If you experience errors during the installation process,review our Troubleshooting topics.
This tutorial will help you to install Anaconda for Mac OS.
Anaconda is both a package manager, python distribution and is incredibly useful for data tasks as it comes bundled with many scientific packages including sci-kit learn, SciPy, Pandas and NumPy.
Additionally it’s the recommended method for installing Jupyter Notebooks.
Installing Anaconda
Personally I prefer to install Python via the graphical interface because it’s a friendly and easy method.
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1. Firstly visit the Anaconda website where you will have the choice to install either Python 2.7 or Python 3. I would recommend downloading the Python 3x. because this will be more supported in the future.
2. After successfully downloading Anaconda, locate it within your download folder and double click on the .pkg file.
3. Click continue.
4 – You will now start the Anaconda3 installer process, click continue.
5. The installer provides a notification saying that it will update your bash profile and will install Anaconda3 within your PATH. Click continue.
6. Click continue to reveal the License Agreement.
7. Now you will need to read and click Agree for the Anaconda licensing agreement, then click continue.
7. Click on the install button.
8. You will need to enter your password which is the same as your Mac login password. Then click Install Software.
9. Click on Continue.
10. After completing the installation simply click close. Then you can move the Anaconda installer file to the trash bin.
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