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Install Anaconda and Jupyter Notebook on Arch Linux

Install Anaconda and Jupyter Notebook on Arch Linux

This guide will show you how to install Anaconda and Jupyter Notebook for Arch Linux System

1.1 Installation

Anaconda can be installed using these two ways

Using AUR

Use your favorite AUR package manager and install python-conda package. This example I will use `yay

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yay -S python-conda

Using the official install script

Download from Anaconda’s official download page

The website will automatically hands you the right version from your browser’s information

Make the script executable and run the script

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chmod u+x ./<install-script>
./<install-script>

2.1 Usage

It is recommended to install new packages in a new environment instead of the base environment. To avoid conda automatically activating the base environment, edit ~/.condarc:

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auto_activate_base: false

2.2 Set default packages

Add create_default_packages section in ~/.condarc. For example:

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create_default_packages:
  - pip
  - ipython
  - numpy
  - scipy
  - libgcc-ng
  - mpich
  - rust

2.3 Create an environment

To crate a new environment myenv with default packages specified in previous section, run:

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conda create --name myenv

To crate a new environment without default packages, run:

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conda create --no-default-packages --name myenv

To create a environment with specified python version and packages, run:

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conda create --name myenv python=3.9 numpy=1.23.5 astropy

To activate the environment:

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conda activate myenv

3.1 Install Jupyter Notebook

Activate your desired enviroment through conda, then run the install command:

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conda install jupyter

After that you can run the jupyter build to init your jupyter notebook enviroment in your current folder of the terminal. Then you can run jupyter lab or jupyter notebook.

Jupyter Interface

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