In this tutorial no root access (sudo) is needed. All installations can be done under the home directory or on a local hard disk.
Download Anaconda from its download page. I prefer the command line installer since I have better control over the remote session. For example:
curl -O https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda_XXXXXXX.sh
Where the XXXX is then the current version of Anaconda.
Then run it:
sh ./Anaconda_XXXXXXX.sh
and then go through the installation in a path in your home directory, which should be the default path. At the end of the installation you will be asked about installing an editor. I personally do not use it.
You can check your installation by
`which python` --version && `which pip` --version
The installation adds the local path by default to your local installation. You can additionally set the PYTHONPATH environmental variable to make sure your local work which is not installed as a package is visible to the python interpreter.
The best way to start with data analysis with python is using virtual environments in conda. You can activate the virtualenv and also list all envs by (conda info --envs). You will see the environment name at the beginning of the common prompt.
Deactivating an envoronemt is like:
conda deactivate
If under circumstances you like to remove the environment:
conda env remove --name ENV_NAME
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