06-conda.md

6. Conda

If you're here you probably already installed anaconda. Anaconda is a great tool that glues together a bunch of tools for python. However, there's some downsides to it: one being that it might be slow and also that it takes up too much space on your machine.

You can either leave it like that, or use miniconda, which is a much lighter program with the same features, which is also recommended.

If you want to switch, first, we'll uninstall:

rm -rf ~/anaconda3

6.1. Installing miniconda

brew install --cask miniconda

6.2. Create an environment

1. Open your terminal and:

   conda init zsh

2. Create an environment

   conda create --name ironhack

3. Activate the environment

   conda activate ironhack

4. Install ipykernel

   conda install -c anaconda ipykernel
   python -m ipykernel install --user --name=ironhack

5. Open jupyter notebook

   jupyter notebook

6. Create a new jupyter notebook selecting your kernel as: ironhack
7. In a cell:

   import numpy as np

8. If it returns 'module not found', go back to your terminal and within your environment, do:

   pip install numpy

9. Congrats! You now have a jupyter notebook that with a new environment and with a library that you installed through pip.