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conda info

conda update conda

conda install PACKAGENAME

spyder

conda update PACKAGENAME

COMMANDNAME --help

conda install --help

Conda basics

Verify conda is installed, check version number

Update conda to the current version

Install a package included in Anaconda

Run a package after install, example Spyder*

Update any installed program

Command line help

*Must be installed and have a deployable command,

usually PACKAGENAME

conda create --name py35 python=3.5

WINDOWS: activate py35

LINUX, macOS: source activate py35

conda env list

conda create --clone py35 --name py35-2

conda list

conda list --revisions

conda install --revision 2

conda list --explicit > bio-env.txt

conda env remove --name bio-env

WINDOWS: deactivate

macOS, LINUX: source deactivate

conda env create --le bio-env.txt

conda create --name bio-env biopython

Use conda to search for a package

See list of all packages in Anaconda

conda search PACKAGENAME

https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/packages/pkg-docs

Finding conda packages

Using environments

Create a new environment named py35, install Python 3.5

Activate the new environment to use it

Get a list of all my environments, active

environment is shown with *

Make exact copy of an environment

List all packages and versions installed in active environment

List the history of each change to the current environment

Restore environment to a previous revision

Save environment to a text ﬁle

Delete an environment and everything in it

Deactivate the current environment

Create environment from a text ﬁle

Stack commands: create a new environment, name

it bio-env and install the biopython package

conda create --name py34 python=3.4

Windows: activate py34

Linux, macOS: source activate py34

Windows: where python

Linux, macOS: which -a python

python --version

Installing and updating packages

Install a new package (Jupyter Notebook)

in the active environment

Run an installed package (Jupyter Notebook)

Install a new package (toolz) in a dierent environment

(bio-env)

Update a package in the current environment

Install a package (boltons) from a speciﬁc channel

(conda-forge)

Install a package directly from PyPI into the current active

environment using pip

Remove one or more packages (toolz, boltons)

from a speciﬁc environment (bio-env)

Specifying version numbers

Ways to specify a package version number for use with conda create or conda install commands, and in meta.yaml ﬁles.

Constraint type Speciﬁcation Result

Fuzzy

numpy=1.11

1.11.0, 1.11.1, 1.11.2, 1.11.18 etc.

Exact

numpy==1.11

1.11.0

Greater than or equal to

"numpy>=1.11"

1.11.0 or higher

"numpy=1.11.1|1.11.3"

1.11.1, 1.11.3

AND

"numpy>=1.8,<2"

1.8, 1.9, not 2.0

NOTE: Quotation marks must be used when your speciﬁcation contains a space or any of these characters: > < | *

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8/20/2017 conda cheat sheet Version 4.3.24

Managing multiple versions of Python

Install dierent version of Python in

a new environment named py34

Switch to the new environment that has

a dierent version of Python

Show the locations of all versions of Python that are

currently in the path

NOTE: The ﬁrst version of Python in the list will be executed.

Show version information for the current active Python

conda install jupyter

jupyter-notebook

conda install --name bio-env toolz

conda update scikit-learn

conda install --channel conda-forge

boltons

pip install boltons

conda remove --name bio-env toolz boltons