Installing Anaconda for CentOS users

Anaconda is a package manager & python distribution. It is incredibly useful for data tasks. Anaconda provides a bundle of scientific packages that you will use throughout you project task such as NumPy, Sci-kit Learn, Pandas, and more. Installation process is as follows:

1. Firstly, inside terminal verify that python is installed, it is recommended to have the latest version. Currently that is Python3 - Python is probably already installed on your system. On the command line without the brackets type sudo <python –version> This Command checks the version of the desired application in our case, python.

  1. Visit the Anaconda website

Anaconda website, this is where you will have the choice to install Anaconda versions

  • One the webpage navigate to the menu bar and select products – Induvial Edition, copy the bash (.sh file) installer link

TERMINAL COMMANDS:

  1. Use ``wget`` to download the bash installer

Use the follow in commands

$ mkdir tmp

$ cd tmp

$ wget https://repo.continuum.io/archive/Anaconda3<release>.sh

  1. Run bash script to install anaconda3

Ensure you are in the directory where the installer script downloaded:

$ ls

Anaconda3-5.2.0-Linux-x86_64.sh

bash Anaconda3-5.2.0-Linux-x86_64.sh

source .bashrc

  1. Test installation

python then, exit()

Install a package

conda install numpy


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