Continuum Analytics: Documentation

# Reference

## How To...

### Use packages

#### Find a package

In your browser, you can search Anaconda Cloud for packages by package name. From the top navigation bar of any page, enter the package name in the search box. You can filter your searches to specify only conda or PyPI packages, and you can sort results by number of favorites or number of downloads by clicking the search results column heading.

#### Download and install a package from Anaconda Cloud

To install a conda package, in your terminal window run:

    conda install -c username packagename

Conda expands “username” to a URL such as “https://anaconda.org/username” or “https://conda.anaconda.org/username” based on the settings in the .condarc file. Anaconda Cloud users can use the defaults, and Anaconda Enterprise repository users can configure the repository or configure conda to use their local installation.

#### Download and install a PyPI package from Anaconda Cloud

To install a PyPI package, in your terminal window run:

    pip install --index-url pypi.anaconda.org/USERNAME/simple packagename

### Use the anaconda-client CLI

#### Install anaconda-client

The anaconda-client command line interface (CLI) is available via conda or pip. See installation and setup instructions.

#### Find my anaconda-client login credentials

Your credentials for anaconda-client are those you used to create an account on Anaconda Cloud. For help, go to Anaconda.org and click “forgot password.”

#### Log into anaconda-client

After you have downloaded and configured anaconda-client, open a terminal window and run:

    anaconda login

#### See a list of anaconda-client commands

From a terminal window, run:

    anaconda --help

#### Find out more about an anaconda-client command

From a terminal window, run:

    anaconda COMMANDNAME -h

#### See a list of all available anaconda-client configuration files

From a terminal window, run:

    anaconda config --files

#### See a list of all of my anaconda-client configuration variables

From a terminal window, run:

    anaconda config --show

#### Find out more about the anaconda-client

If you have a question that you cannot answer using the help command, documentation or community support email group, please contact us.

### Build packages

#### Build and upload a package

For a quick run-through, try the Quickstart build guide section.

#### Test a built package

Specify the ‘–use-local’ option. For example:

    conda create --use-local -n test PACKAGENAME

#### Upload a package to Anaconda Cloud

In a terminal window, run:

    anaconda upload PACKAGENAME

#### Find help uploading packages

For a complete list of upload options, including specifying a package’s channel, label, availability to other users, and metadata, in a terminal window, run:

    anaconda upload -h

### Manage my account

#### Get more package storage space

Upgrade to a paid plan. Log into Anaconda Cloud, from the toolbar select User Settings > Billing, and click the Change Plan button.

## FAQ

### General Questions

#### What is Anaconda Cloud?

Anaconda Cloud (Anaconda.org) provides a package management service. Anaconda Cloud package management makes it easy to find, access, store and share public and private notebooks, environments, and conda and PyPI packages, and to keep up with updates made to the packages and environments you’re using.

#### What kind of packages does Anaconda Cloud support?

Anaconda Cloud supports any type of package. Today, it’s primarily used for conda and PyPI packages, as well as notebooks and environments.

#### Who can find and install my packages?

If you have a free account, all of your packages are public, so after you upload them to Anaconda Cloud anyone can search for and download them. If you wish to designate private packages, you can purchase a paid account.

#### What is Continuum Analytics?

Continuum Analytics is a software development and consulting company of passionate open source advocates based in Austin, Texas, USA. We are committed to the open source community. We created the Anaconda Python distribution and contribute to many other open source-based data analytics tools. You can find out more about us here.

#### What are Anaconda Cloud’s Terms of Service?

You can read our terms of service here. For any additional questions, please email us.

### Accounts and Pricing

#### How much does Anaconda Cloud cost?

Anaconda Cloud is always free for downloading and uploading public packages, and for academic users. If you want private packages or extra storage space, you can upgrade to a private account. For more information, see our plans and pricing.

#### Do you offer free access for academic use?

Yes. Our academic accounts even include free add-ons such as IOPro and Anaconda Accelerate. You must sign up for Anaconda Cloud with an .edu email address. Other features such as private packages require a paid plan.

#### How do I get started with Anaconda Cloud?

You can search, download and install hundreds of public packages without even having an account. If you wish to upload packages, you will need to sign up for an Anaconda Cloud account. See our Using Anaconda Cloud section for more help.

#### What kind of account do I have?

By default your account is a personal, free account. All packages you upload to Anaconda Cloud will be public, and you will be the only person with administrative access to your account.

#### What’s included in the free version of Anaconda Cloud?

The Free plan allows you to search for, create and host public packages, and provides up to 3 GB storage space. Compare plans.

#### What’s included in the paid personal version of Anaconda Cloud?

With our paid personal subscription, you can create and host private packages, and use 10 GB of storage space. Compare plans.

#### What’s included in the paid organization version of Anaconda Cloud?

With our paid subscriptions, you can create and host private packages, multiple users and groups, and use 100 GB of storage space. Compare plans.

#### How can I upgrade my account?

You can upgrade to a paid account here. This will allow you to create private packages and increase your storage limit.

#### What is an organization account, and how is it different from an individual account?

An organization account allows multiple individual users to administer packages and have more control of package access by other users. An individual account is for use by one person.

## Glossary

### Anaconda

An easy-to-install, free collection of Open Source packages, including Python and the conda package manager, with free community support. Over 150 packages are installed with Anaconda. The Anaconda repository contains over 250 additional Open Source packages that can be installed or updated after installing Anaconda with the `conda install PACKAGENAME` command.

### Anaconda Cloud

Anaconda Cloud hosts hundreds of useful Python packages, notebooks and environments for a wide variety of applications. You don’t need to have an Anaconda Cloud account, or to be logged in, to search for public packages, download and install them. Anaconda Cloud is located at anaconda.org.

### Anaconda-Build CLI

A now-deprecated command line interface (CLI) to Anaconda Cloud that allowed users to build cross-platform packages with build workers on a cloud computing service.

### Anaconda-Client CLI

The Anaconda-Client command line interface (CLI) allows you to log into Anaconda Cloud directly from your terminal window and manage your account. It is not necessary for downloading or installing packages from Anaconda Cloud.

### Binstar

Binstar was an early project name for Anaconda Cloud. You may still see the term Binstar in certain command and directory names.

### Labels

The URLs on Anaconda Cloud where conda looks for packages. Using the Anaconda-Client CLI, package developers can create additional labels such as development (labels/dev) test (labels/test) or other labels which will be searched only if the user specifies the label.

https://anaconda.org/travis/labels/main - the label searched by default

https://anaconda.org/travis - same as default label with “main” implicit

https://anaconda.org/travis/labels/dev - contains the packages in development

https://anaconda.org/travis/labels/test - contains packages ready to test

https://anaconda.org/travis/labels/any-custom-label - any label you wish to use.

### Conda

The conda package manager and environment manager program that installs and updates packages and their dependencies, and lets you easily switch between environments on your local computer.

### Conda-Build

The command line interface that lets you build packages for your local operating system.

### Conda package

A tarball (compressed file) containing system-level libraries, Python modules, executable programs, or other components.

### Miniconda

A minimal installer for conda. Like Anaconda, Miniconda is a software package that includes the conda package manager and Python and its dependencies, but does not include any other packages. Once conda is installed by installing either Anaconda or Miniconda, other software packages may be installed directly from the command line with ‘conda install’. See also Anaconda and conda.

### Noarch package

A conda package that contains nothing specific to any system architecture, so it may be installed on any system. When conda does a search for packages on any system in a channel, conda always checks both the system-specific subdirectory, for example, `linux-64` and the `noarch` directory.

### OnSite

Anaconda Cloud is powered by Anaconda Server by Continuum Analytics. Run your own Anaconda server behind firewalls or in air-gapped environments. Contact sales@continuum.io for more information.

### Organization

An organization account is a type of account on Anaconda Cloud that allows multiple individual users to administer packages and control package access to different user groups. It also includes a large amount of storage space.

### Repository

A storage location from which software packages may be retrieved and installed on a computer.

### Source package

“Source” packages are source code only, not yet built for any specific platform, and might be compatible with all, some, or only one of the platforms.

### Token

A token (or authentication token) is the mechanism by which anonymous users can download private packages without using an Anaconda Cloud account. It is an alpha-numeric code that is inserted into a URL that allows access by anyone who has the URL. You can use anaconda-client to generate new tokens to give other users specifically scoped access to packages and collections.

### User Namespace

The part of Anaconda Cloud where a user or organization may host packages. For example, the user namespace https://anaconda.org/travis contains packages that were uploaded and shared by the user named Travis.