Installing Anaconda on Linux

A very popular way of installing a Python distribution is via the software package Anaconda. It contains a complete high performance Python, Scala, and R ecosystem, including the most well-known packages used in data science. It also includes a host of other packages available through conda, which is the main utility of the package and manages the environment, packages, and dependencies.

Anaconda is built and distributed by Continuum Analytics (continuum.io), a company which also maintains the packages and their dependencies.

In order to install Anaconda, let's first download the installer package, version 4.2.0 at the time of writing.

You can find the latest package version at https://www.anaconda.com/download/ ...

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