Hands-On Intelligent Agents with OpenAI Gym

Creating the conda environment

Now that we have set up Anaconda, let's use conda to create a Python virtual environment, which we will use throughout this book.

If you prefer a one-click install setup and do not want to go through the installation step by step, a greatly simplified way to create the environment with all the necessary packages installed is using the conda_env.yaml conda environment configuration file available in the book's code repository. You can simply run the following command from the book's code repository directory (HOIAWOG) which we created in the previous section:praveen@ubuntu:~/HOIAWOG$ conda create -f conda_env.yaml -n rl_gym_book

At this point, we will just create a new minimal environment to proceed. Enter the ...