Download installer from the official website
a) Open your Chrome, Mozilla, Edge or any other browser. (Will be using Edge for this example)
b) In the address bar at the top of the browser, type https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual#windows or click here.
c) Under the “Anaconda Individual Edition” heading, click the link labeled “Download”.
d) Now run the Anacondar*.exe file which has been downloaded (Press CTRL + J on your browser to view downloaded file or search Downloads folder on local machine)
Run Anacondar*.exe installer file
a) Double click installer file, when a prompt shows up click Next
b) Scroll over licensing terms and select I agree option.
c) Usually select install for Just Me in most cases, only in a few cases where Multiple user accounts are involved that installation for All Users is performed. Click Next.
d) Now select the folder installation destination where Anaconda packages and files are saved (Don’t keep Unicode or spaces in location path, special characters to be avoided as location name, if possible).
e) Quick Note: While python recommends keeping a reserve memory of roughly 3–4 GB for the package storage. However, if your objectives are to leverage this version of python for Machine Learning and later Deep Learning, please keep a reserve of at least 10–15 GB in the long run (even this could be a conservative estimate depending on use cases implemented).
f) Now comes the MOST IMPORTANT STEP. I would personally recommend selecting the Add Anaconda3 to my PATH environment variable (this ensures you can run anaconda commands later on directly from your windows command prompt). Now click Install and wait for package installation to complete (you can browse over package list being installed in the meantime).
Please Note: Anaconda in its official documentation will recommend you not to Add Anaconda to PATH variable, however for most of the use cases/applications (90–95%) is not really impacted and whenever we do need to run python scripts directly from command prompt there would be no restrictions.
g) Skip data spell installation (Not something that useful and there are better alternatives in the market honestly). Just click Next (no need to go to data spell link)
h) Finally once installation is complete you will receive a dialog box as shown below. Click on Finish to exit installation (Untick the other two options in case self-exploration is preferred over guided tutorial on anaconda).
Installation Verification
1.1 Open Start Menu and search for Anaconda Navigator
1.2 This opens the Anaconda explorer which contains various computing and notebook environments, along with multiple data analytics tool which come as part and parcel of Anaconda. If you are able to see the screen below and Jupyter notebook/Spyder etc. are working as well then installation was successful. Image show below
2.1 Apart from this another way is to search for Anaconda prompt in Start Menu. Double click to open it.
2.2 Now in the newly opened prompt type the following command
conda list anaconda$It will display results as show below in the image.
2.3 Now type python in the shell prompt, which in turn will execute a python kernel within this existing shell. In this python shell we can execute standalone python commands line by line as shown below (simple pring statement being executed).
print("Python is working on this system")
Well thats a wrap on this tutorial. Please do leave your doubts in the comment section and i will try to answer whenever possible. Also here are a few resource links for extra details as well from official Anaconda documentation.
Official documentation link: Click here
Installation Verification link: Click here
Hope everyone who read this found it helpful.