Anaconda¶

Anaconda Distribution is a popular platform that contains

• conda - a package and environment manager for your command line interface
• Over 300 automaticall-installed packages

Installation¶

To install Anaconda, download the installer from the Anaconda website. The installer will ask you to accept the license agreement, choose the installation directory.

Usage¶

After installing Anaconda, you can open the Anaconda Prompt to chekc your python version

check python¶

# check python location
where python

# check python version 
python -V

list virtual environment¶

conda env list

Setting up virtual environment¶

Create a virtual environment¶

conda create --name name_of_your_virtual_environment

List virtual environment¶

now if you list virgual envionment, you can see the virtual environment that you just create

conda env list

Activate virtual environment¶

if you virtual environment named as 'arcgis_python'

activate arcgis_python

Install packages (e.g., geopandas)¶

conda install geopandas