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I want to install both anaconda 2 and 3 because i need to use the standard packages in both python2 and python3.
I have anaconda2 installed already and i tried using it to create a python3 environment.
conda create --name py36 python=3.6
source activate py36
However i realized it lacked all the basic packages like matplotlib, numpy etc.
So rather than manually installing them in the py36 environment, i thought of downloading anaconda3 as well.
But i ran into an issue downloading it into the same directory as anaconda2 because anaconda3 folder is also called the same name as anaconda2 folder which is
anaconda
.
How do i rename the folder when downloading anaconda3?
And will this affect which anaconda i call when i do
conda <some
command>?
There are many duplicates of this question, such as here:
How to install 2 Anacondas (Python 2.7 and 3.4) on Mac OS 10.9
And conda provides the answer here:
https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/tasks/manage-python.html#installing-a-different-version-of-python
But TL;DR is just add
anaconda
conda create --name py36 python=3.6 anaconda
