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What is Anaconda? Downloading and Installing

In this article we are going to learn the following - What is Anaconda? How to Download Anaconda? And, Installing and setting up Anaconda environment.

What is Anaconda?

As claimed by the website, Anaconda has over 15 million users across the globe and is widely popular for the data science platform and the foundation of modern machine learning.

The Anaconda has three different products namely: 
  1. Anaconda Distribution
  2. Anaconda Enterprise
  3. Team Distribution

Anaconda Enterprise 

As the name suggests it is meant for enterprise, which means for organizations and firms that are looking end to end fully-featured machine learning platform to do real data science at speed and scale.
It actually helps organizations harness data science, machine learning and AI at the pace demanded by today's digital interactions.

Some of the features of Anaconda Enterprise are:
  • Develop: Accelerate real World Development
  • Collaborate: Productivity and effectiveness for large teams
  • Govern: Thousands of open-source packages curated by organizations.
  • Deploy: Publish in one Click and run anywhere

Team Edition

Anaconda team edition is an open-source and a secure repository of popular, versatile packages for the enterprise. The repository is the central clearinghouse for building artifacts so that you can use open source technology with confidence. 

Anaconda Distribution

It's an open-source distribution that both Python and R environment to perform data science and machine learning on Linus, Windows, and MacOS. Some quick facts for anaconda distribution are:
  • You can download more than 1500+ Python and R data science packages. 
  • You can manage environments, libraries and dependencies and the environment with Conda.
  • You can work with machine learning and deep learning libraries like scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and Theano.
  • It supports Numpy, Dask, Pandas & Numba.
  • You can also visualize the results using Matplot, Datashader, Bokeh, and Holoviews.
some anaconda distribution libraries
Some anaconda distribution libraries
Anaconda distribution is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux

System requirements

  • License: Free to use and redistribution under the terms of the End User License Agreement.
  • Operating system: Windows 7 or newer, 64-bit macOS 10.10+, or Linux, including Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS 6+, and others.
  • System architecture: Windows- 64-bit x86, 32-bit x86; MacOS- 64-bit x86; Linux- 64-bit x86, 64-bit Power8/Power9.
  • Minimum 5 GB disk space to download and install.

Downloading Anaconda for Windows / macOs / Linux

Anaconda provides two different Python versions available to download i.e. Python 3 and Python 2.7. You can visit here to download the Installer for your choice.

Anaconda Python Version Available
Anaconda Python Version Available

Installation and Setting up Anaconda Environment

Watch this video that covers the entire downloading, installing and setting up anaconda environment.


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