What are the differences between Konda and Anaconda

Question

I first installed Anaconda on my ubuntu in ~/anaconda , when I tried to update my anaconda, according to the documentation from Continuum Analytics, I have to use the following commands:

 conda update conda conda update anaconda 

Then I realized that I did not have conda installed, so I installed it using the documentation from here .

After conda is installed, when I ran conda update anaconda , I got the following error:

Error: package 'anaconda' is not installed in / home / xiang / miniconda

It looks like conda is assuming my anaconda is installed under /home/xiang/miniconda , which is NOT true.

My questions:

• What is the difference between a condo and an anaconda?
• How can I tell the conde where my anaconda is installed?

Answer 1

conda is a package manager. Anaconda is a collection of approximately one hundred packages, including conda, numpy, scipy, ipython notebook, etc.

You have installed Miniconda, which is a smaller alternative to Anaconda, which is just a condo and its dependencies (unlike Anaconda, which is conda and many other packages like numpy, scipy, ipython notebook, etc.). When you have Miniconda, you can easily install Anaconda on it using conda install anaconda .