Algorithms For Dummies

Installing Python on Linux

You use the command line to install Anaconda on Linux — you’re given no graph-

ical installation option. Before you can perform the install, you must download a 

copy of the Linux software from the Continuum Analytics site. You can find the 

required download information in the “Obtaining Analytics Anaconda” section, 

earlier in this chapter. The following procedure should work fine on any Linux 

system, whether you use the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Anaconda:

1. 

Open a copy of Terminal.

The Terminal window appears.

2. 

Change directories to the downloaded copy of Anaconda on your system.

The name of this file varies, but normally it appears as 

Anaconda3-4.2.0- 

Linux-x86.sh

 for 32-bit systems and 

Anaconda3-4.2.0-Linux-x86_64.sh

 

for 64-bit systems. The version number is embedded as part of the filename. 

In this case, the filename refers to version 4.2.0, which is the version used for 

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