Using conda from the command line
conda is used from the command line. The command line is a text interface for
your computer. It’s a program that takes in text commands, which it passes on to
the computer’s operating system to run.
Windows users should open the
Miniforge prompt(search in the start menu)macOS and linux users open a shell (Konsole or terminal)
You should now have a window showing the following text (or similar):
(base) username@computer:~$
Especially the (base) part is required. If this is not present try to open the
command line again.
Note
There are several names for a command line interface, such as Terminal, Konsole,
(or Console), Shell, Prompt. In the context of this course they all mean the same.
The base environment
The base environment contains conda itself and some other packages. We
do not conduct our project in base but will create a dedicated
environment for this. For our course we need to install two additional packages into
the base environment:
conda install jupyterlab nb_conda_kernels
again confirm the dialog with y. Once this runs successfully we have installed the
required addition packages into the base environment: jupyterlab and nb_conda_kernels
(and its dependencies). We will mostly use jupyter lab to run python code - this will
be discussed in the Running Python exercise.