You are probably best to use the Environments tab in Anaconda Navigator for the creation, management of environments and installation of libraries/packages, but you can use the Anaconda Prompt commands if you like and on some machines it is a lot faster to do so.īe aware that although pip install and conda install commands are supposed to play better together these days, I would still recommend sticking to conda install and only using pip if conda install won’t work for a particular package.

You might do this to run a different version of python, perhaps, for example, because a library you wish to use is only compatible with python 3.6 or lower.Īlso if you want to install an experimental library/package and not have it break your other installed packages, you might install it in a new environment, where it is isolated from the rest of your installed libraries/packages. You can create a new environment from within Anaconda Navigator. '(base)' is displayed to tell you which environment you are in.

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