amerand/noconda

moving away from Anaconda

noconda

Guidelines how to move away from Anaconda and use standard tools for installing Python, managing packages and environments.

Install Python For Mac users

There is a long version, the tldr version for the impatients is:

• Download and run the installer from Python.org

• Open a terminal

  make sure you open the terminal after you have installed Python, otherwise your $PATH may not be properly up to date! (you can also source your .zprofile). Check that python3 and pip3 point to the correct place: which python3 should return /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/bin/python3 (where 3.12 is the version of Python you just installed).

• If you do not need environments, open a terminal, and type (add the packages you need):

$ pip3 install numpy scipy matplotlib astropy jupyterlab
$ jupyter-lab

• If you use environments, type (add the packages you need):

$ python3 -m venv myEnv
$ source myEnv/bin/activate
(myEnv) $ pip3 install numpy scipy matplotlib astropy jupyterlab
(myEnv) $ jupyter-lab
(myEnv) $ deactivate