How to install Anaconda Python?
Anaconda is a popular tool used in machine learning and Data Science. It is a free and open source distribution of Python and R language. It aims to simplify the management and deployment of packages i.e. it gives you the liberty to create a separate environment with the packages that are needed in your project. You can create any number of environments based upon your projects with the required packages. Anaconda comes with a GUI Navigator known as Anaconda navigator which is a graphical user interface to the conda packages, and an anaconda prompt that is the command-line interface of anaconda navigator
Steps To Install Anaconda Navigator
Step 1:
Go to Anaconda.com you will get thye following page
Step 2:
Make sure that the anaconda distribution is for windows by clicking on the windows icon since we are downloading it for windows 10
Step 3:
We need to know the system type so as to select the appropriate exe installer for the system. If you already know your system type you can go to step 4. Else follow the steps below
- Right Click on My Computer
- Go to Properties
- In the System Section. Check the System type. For me, it is an x64 based processor Following is the snapshot of how it will look
Step 4:
After the file is downloaded open and run exe installer, you will get a Welcome window
Step 5:
Click on next. You will get a window showing the licence agreement
Step 6:
Click on i agree
Step 7:
All users is not recommended as most of the time people doesn’t have the admin rights so select “just me” and Click Next
Step 8:
Select the Destination Folder in which you want to install Anaconda distribution and Click Next
Step 9:
Click install. Once the installation is completed open anaconda prompt
This will start the anaconda prompt window which looks like a black window as shown in the snapshot below
Step 10:
Type the python command in the anaconda prompt window and hit enter:
Step 11:
Open the anaconda navigator
Step 12:
From anaconda navigator, you can launch Jupyter notebook to work on Python
Step 13:
Select option new and open Python 3. Your will get a new page
Step 14:
You can start writing code and have a good experience in Python coding