Type y when asked if you wish to proceed and hit enter. This will install Jupyter Notebooks, a useful took for writing Python code.

Type conda list to confirm that it works. This is the root shell, where you can do system stuff without having to type sudo every time. Here's what you need to do:ĩ: Open a fresh terminal and type sudo -i typing your password when prompted. sudo conda install jupyter, but you may get a message 'sudo: conda: command not found'.

Now for the slightly tricky partĨ: If you want to install any packages using the conda command, you will need to use sudo, i.e. If you get a list of packages, the installation was successful. To test the installation, type conda list Open a new terminal session from Menu>System Tools> MATE Terminal. Type exit, hit enter, and close the terminal window. Type yes and hit enter.ħ: You will be shown a message that the installation is finished and you will need to open a new Terminal session to use it. There will be several lines of installing: package that will appear, then you will be asked if you wish for the installer to prepend the Miniconda installation to your PATH. Type yes and hit enter.Ħ: The default location should be good, so just hit enter. You will be asked if you accept the license terms. The quickest way to go through this is to hit space this will take you through a few lines at at time. You will be presented with a license and terms of use. It should look something like Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh This will start the installer.ĥ: Hit enter to continue with the installation. Type bash miniconda-file.sh, replacing miniconda-file with the name of the file you downloaded. If you didn't download the file to Downloads, change it to wherever you downloaded the file to. You will be shown a command prompt that looks like normal, except there will be a # instead of a $ at the end.Ĥ: Type cd ~/Downloads. Nothing will appear as you type: this is normal and is a security feature. This will open up a Terminal session.ģ: Type sudo -i and type your password when prompted. With Miniconda, you can download it much faster and still install whatever you need easilyĢ: From the Start Menu, go to System Tools>MATE Terminal. sh file from here (if on a Raspberry Pi, from here.) I recommend Miniconda because the full Anaconda package has about a thousand packages, mostly for data science, included, and it is several gigabytes in size. It comes with a Python package management system and many modules pre-downloaded.)ġ: Download the.

(For those who may not know, Anaconda is an open-source Python distribution designed for large-scale data analysis. So, here is my tutorial for how to install Anaconda successfully. When I installed Anaconda (actually, I installed Miniconda, but it should be just the same), it failed to work with sudo.

Install anaconda