To install Miniconda, run the following commands.

Note that the Miniconda installer does not support paths containing spaces. MyPythonEnv represents the name of your environment The location where Miniconda is (or should be) installed. Your/install/location represents the location you are installing Miniconda to.

You can also specify a location to install Miniconda if you prefer.

Our install script will install Miniconda to your default project /scratch Instructions for Miniconda on M3 # Install Miniconda # Using our Miniconda install script also ensures that if you need any assistance, our team has more clarity on how best to help. Miniconda installs a reduced set of initial packages, ensuring you only install Installing Miniconda using our script automatically creates an environment called jupyterlab whichĬan be used with the JupyterLab option in Strudel2. We provide a user-friendly script to install your own copy of Miniconda on M3, minimising installation difficulty. Miniconda is our preferred Python install method on M3 because: Miniconda allows you to manage multiple Python environments with conda. The installation instructions below assume that you have already set up bash on macOS or Linux systems or, if you are on a Windows machine, installed the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).This documentation is under active development, meaning that it canĬhange over time as we refine it. Instead, an environment manager enables you to configure independent environments, i.e. a set of programs (each also with a defined version) in which one tool or combination of tools works. It is often difficult to have one universal install in which all of your tools will work predictably at the same time. Unfortunately, some programs might, at the same time, conflict with other programs or only work with specific version numbers. One of the difficulties when working with software tools is that these often have dependencies, i.e. need other programs to properly function (which might themselves need other programs and so on). These apps are downloaded as so-called packages.Ĭonda acts as an environment manager. Conda itself fulfills two functions:Ĭonda is a package manager, i.e. think of it as an App Store where you can get apps for your command-line interface (CLI). Miniconda is a minimal installer for Conda, Python, their dependencies and a small collection of packages.

Install miniconda