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# Anaconda Navigator

Desktop Installer & Manager

## What is Anaconda Navigator?

Anaconda Navigator is a desktop graphical user interface (GUI) that is included in Anaconda® and allows you to launch applications and easily manage conda packages, environments and channels without using command-line commands. You can configure Navigator to search for packages on Anaconda Cloud or in a local Anaconda Repository. It is available for Windows, macOS and Linux.

To get Navigator, download Anaconda.

The Getting started section shows how to start Navigator from the shortcuts or from a terminal window.

## Why use Navigator?

In order to run, many scientific packages depend on specific versions of other packages. Data scientists often use multiple versions of many packages, and use multiple environments to separate these different versions.

The command line program conda is both a package manager and an environment manager, to help data scientists ensure that each version of each package has all the dependencies it requires and works correctly.

Navigator is an easy, point-and-click way to work with packages and environments without needing to use conda commands in a terminal window. You can use it to find the packages you want, install them in an environment, run the packages and update them, all inside Navigator.

## What applications can I access using Navigator?

The following applications are available by default in Navigator:

- Anaconda Fusion
- Jupyter Notebook
- Orange App
- QTConsole
- Glueviz
- Spyder
- RStudio

You can also build your own Navigator applications.

## What’s new in 1.6?

- Better logging for application launches.
- Package list can be filtered by “to be installed”.
- Selecting an environment on the Home or Environments tab now selects it on both.
- Numerous bug fixes and performance enhancements.

For details on changes in this and previous versions, see Release notes.

To see what version of Navigator you have, on the File menu on Windows or the python menu on macOS, select About.