Anaconda Installation on Windows

Anaconda is a very powerful distribution for the python.

Q) What is mean distribution?

Simply say distribution means a collection of packages that are pre-configured and they installed at once.

It's highly recommended to install the anaconda distribution.

Installing anaconda will :-

1. Install python for you
2. Jupyter
3. Numpy, Pandas, and more
4. Bring an anaconda navigator and Conda package manager.

Let's go now:

Step 1) Download anaconda from here. Make sure you use Python 3. Python 2 has been deprecated since 1st January 2020, and there won’t be any support for that. Python community themselves recommend using Python 3 ASAP.

Now onwards you have to simply follow the prompts.

Step 2) Open the installer. The screen will look like below:

Click on the run button.

Step 3) Click on the Next.

Step 4 ) Accept the Agreement.

Step 5) Select the installation type.

Step 6) Select the location

Step 7) You can control the environment variable from here.

Choose whether to add Anaconda to your PATH environment variable. Anaconda recommends not adding Anaconda to the PATH environment variable, since this can interfere with other software. Instead, use Anaconda software by opening Anaconda Navigator or the Anaconda Prompt from the Start Menu.

Click on Install.

Step 8) Wait for dialog to complete installing the packages. It may take a while.

Step 9) Once the installer finishes, click on next.

Step 10 ) This is an optional window and it gives you the window where you can select pyCharm (One of the IDE for Python programming)

Step 11) At the end you will be prompt with the Completion message.

Congratulations!!!! you have installed the anaconda and the whole package related to machine learning.

Launch the Anaconda Navigator:-

In windows from the start menu select “Anaconda Navigator”.

Click on the “Anaconda Navigator” to launch the navigator.