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Anaconda Distribution
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:emphasis:`Anaconda Distribution Open Data Science Core`

Anaconda is an easy-to-install free package manager, environment manager, Python 
distribution, and collection of over 720 open source packages offering free 
community support. 

Get the :download:`Anaconda Cheat Sheet <Anaconda_CheatSheet.pdf>` 
and then download `Anaconda <https://www.continuum.io/downloads>`_. 

Don't want the huge collection of 720 software packages? Then get 
`Miniconda <http://conda.pydata.org/miniconda.html>`_ and get started with 
this guide.

Navigator or conda?
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After you install Anaconda or Miniconda, you'll choose to work with either Anaconda 
Navigator (if you prefer a desktop graphical user interface), or conda (if 
you prefer to use a command prompt or terminal program). You can even switch 
between the two.

Any Anaconda package can be installed, removed, or updated with a few  
clicks in Navigator, or with a single conda command in a command prompt 
or terminal window.

:doc:`Anaconda Navigator <navigator>` is a desktop graphical user interface 
included in Anaconda that allows you to launch applications and easily manage 
conda packages, environments and channels without the need to use a command 
prompt or terminal program. Anaconda Navigator is automatically installed when 
you install Anaconda. 

*To try Anaconda Navigator*, after installing Anaconda, look on your programs 
menu for the Navigator icon. See :doc:`Anaconda Navigator <navigator>`.

`Conda <http://conda.pydata.org/docs/index.html>`_ works in the command 
prompt program on Windows, or in a terminal program on Linux and OS X. Conda 
was created for Python programs, but can package and distribute any software. 

*To try conda*, after installing Anaconda or Miniconda, take the `30-minute 
conda test drive <http://conda.pydata.org/docs/test-drive.html>`_, download 
a `conda cheat sheet <http://conda.pydata.org/docs/_downloads/conda-cheatsheet.pdf>`_ 
and see our "`Using conda <http://conda.pydata.org/docs/using>`_" section 
for fun things to do with conda.

Product specifications
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* License: Anaconda is free to use and redistribute under the terms of the :doc:`eula`
* Windows Vista\* or newer, OS X 10.7+, or Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat and others; CentOS 5+)
* 32-bit or 64-bit
* Minimum 3 GB disk space to download and install.

\*Windows XP is supported on Anaconda versions 2.2 and earlier. See  :doc:`oldpkglists`.

Packages available in Anaconda
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* Over 150 packages are :doc:`automatically installed with Anaconda <pkg-docs>`.
* Over 250 additional open source packages can be individually installed from the Anaconda repository at the command line, by using the  "conda install" command.
* Thousands of other packages are available from Anaconda.org.
* Others can be downloaded using the "pip install" command that is included and installed with Anaconda.
* You can also make your own custom packages using the "conda build" command, and upload them to Anaconda.org, PyPi or other repositories.

High performance
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Anaconda provides high performance computing with :doc:`Anaconda Accelerate </accelerate/index>` and several other components:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   IOPro </iopro/index>
   MKL Optimizations </mkl-optimizations/index>
   NumbaPro </numbapro/index>
   license-installation

What's new in Anaconda 4.2?
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Anaconda 4.2 was released on September 27, 2016 and includes the following:

* Updated Qt from major version 4 to 5
* Updated IPython from 4.2 to 5.1
* Updated Matplotlib from 1.5.1 to 1.5.3
* Updated OpenSSL from 1.0.2h to 1.0.2j
* Added anaconda-clean, a new tool for cleaning up Anaconda related configuration files and directories
* Over 55 packages updated
* About 20 new packages were added
* Windows installer improvements

For full details please see the :doc:`changelog <changelog>`.

Previous versions
=================

Previous versions of Anaconda are available in the `archive <https://repo.continuum.io/archive/>`_.
See the list of packages included in each previous version in the :doc:`oldpkglists`.

Product archive
===============

The following Continuum products have been replaced and are no longer available to new users. 
Documentation for these products is made available for existing users only:

* :doc:`Anaconda Launcher </anaconda-launcher/index>` (replaced by :doc:`Anaconda Navigator </anaconda/navigator>`)
* :doc:`Anaconda for Cluster Management  </anaconda-cluster/index>` (replaced by :doc:`Anaconda Scale </anaconda-scale/index>`)

.. _anaconda-support:

Support
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For free community support, join the `Anaconda Mailing List <https://groups.google.com/a/continuum.io/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/anaconda>`_.

Please report bugs on the `Anaconda GitHub issue tracker <https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues>`_.

Packages: Refer to the :doc:`Anaconda included packages list <pkg-docs>`.

Continuum Analytics also offers `support <http://continuum.io/support>`_ & `training <https://www.continuum.io/training>`_.

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    hashes/index
    pkg-docs
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    glossary
    changelog
    navigator
    ide_integration
    jupyter-notebook-extensions
    r_language
    images
    excel
    oldpkglists
    eula
    faq
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