Miniconda Lightweight version of Anaconda. While Anaconda includes many libraries and IDEs, Miniconda is limited to conda, Python, and the minimum required libraries.
** Lighter than Anaconda ** At the time of installation, Anaconda is included, so it will be about several GB. In that respect, Miniconda contains only the minimum required, so it only needs a few hundred MB.
** Can use conda **
conda is a tool that allows you to manage Python packages and version control of Python itself.
When building an environment using pip, where pip + pyenv is needed, only conda is needed.
Especially on MacOS, building a Python environment is easy to get stuck in consideration of the default Python, so it is easy to cover with conda alone.
** The name Miniconda is cool ** I feel that conda is cooler than pip, and Miniconda is cooler than Anaconda. It's just a sound.
Install using Intora from https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html from the official Miniconda site.
Create a virtual environment using conda.
conda create -n py36 python=3.6
conda activate py36
By doing so, a virtual environment py36 of Python3.6 is created, and you can switch to that environment with activate.
At this time, they kindly add (py36) $ and the environment name at the beginning of the prompt.
If you don't need it
conda config --set changeps1 False
source ~/.bash_profile
By doing so, it will be written to .condarc and will not be displayed.
How to get out of the virtual environment
conda deactivate
Will return to the default base.
The library can be added with the following command.
conda install pandas
If you can't find the library on the default channel, you can also search for it with conda-forge.
conda search -c conda-forge pixiedust
conda install -c conda-forge pixiedust
If you can't find it by default, you'll want to use pip, but you want to avoid using conda and pip together as much as possible.
If you can't find it in conda-forge, take a look at Anaconda Cloud.
Anaconda Official Installation Guide https://conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/install/macos.html Anaconda Cloud https://anaconda.org/
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