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# Quickstart

## Find, download and install packages

### Search for a public package

Anaconda Cloud hosts hundreds of useful Python packages for a wide variety of applications. You don’t need an Anaconda Cloud account, or to be logged in, to search for public packages, download and install them. You need an account only to access private packages without a token, or to share your packages with others.

1. In the top search box, type part or all of the name of a program you are searching for and press Enter.
2. Packages that match your search string are displayed. Click the package name to see more information.

### Refine your search results

You can filter search results using three filter controls:

- All packages, conda only or PyPI only
- All types, Public and/or Private (only available if you are logged in)
- Platforms: All, Source, Linux-32, Linux-64, Noarch, OSX-64, Win-32, Win-64.

“Source” packages are source code only, not yet built for any specific platform.

“Noarch” packages are built to work on all platforms.

### Download and install a package from Anaconda Cloud

You can download and install packages using Anaconda Navigator, the graphical user interface for Anaconda Repository. Advanced users may prefer a terminal window or command prompt. Instructions are included for both.

Using Anaconda Navigator

Anaconda Navigator is automatically installed when you install Anaconda. Start Navigator by clicking its program icon on your desktop or in your programs menu.

Next, sign Navigator into Anaconda Cloud so you can search for packages marked as private. Click the top right “Sign in to Anaconda Cloud” button and enter your Anaconda Cloud Username and Password, then click the Login button.

Download and install a package into its own environment from your Environments tab: from the far right “Search packages” box enter the name of the package. Be sure to select either “not installed” or “all” from the drop-down menu, then click the Search button. Check the checkbox of the package you want to install and click the Apply button.

See Navigator for more detailed information.

Using conda in a terminal window or command prompt

After you have located a package and clicked on the name, the detail page displays specific install instructions for the current operating system. Copy and paste the full command into your terminal window.

NOTE: For the following examples to work, you need to have conda downloaded and installed.

EXAMPLE: To download and install a package with conda, run:

    conda install -c username packagename

Conda expands “username” to a URL such as “https://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.

## Build and upload packages

Open an Anaconda Cloud account to upload packages and/or to access private packages without a token.

To build and upload packages, install the Anaconda Client command line interface (CLI). Open a Terminal window and enter:

    conda install anaconda-client

Next, log into your Anaconda Cloud account. In your terminal window, enter the following:

    anaconda login

At the prompt, enter your Anaconda Cloud username and password.

Next, choose the package you would like to build. For this quickstart, you can download our test package:

    git clone https://github.com/Anaconda-Server/anaconda-client
    cd anaconda-client/example-packages/conda/

To build your test package, first install conda-build and turn off automatic anaconda-client uploading, then run the conda build command:

    conda install conda-build
    conda config --set anaconda_upload no
    conda build .

Check your path to where the newly built file was placed so you can use it in the next step:

    conda build . --output

Finally, log into your Anaconda Cloud account if you haven’t already, and upload your newly built test package to your Anaconda Cloud account:

    anaconda login
    anaconda upload /your/path/conda-package.tar.bz2

For detailed information, see the Conda packages section.

## Share notebooks

Upload a Jupyter notebook (formerly IPython notebook) to Anaconda Cloud:

    anaconda upload my-notebook.ipynb

An HTML version of the notebook will be at:

    http://notebooks.anaconda.org/<USERNAME>/my-notebook

Anyone can download it:

    anaconda download username/my-notebook

## Share environments

Save a conda environment and upload it to Anaconda Cloud:

    conda env export -n my-environment -f my-environment.yml
    conda env upload -f my-environment.yml

A list of your uploaded environments is at:

    http://envs.anaconda.org/<USERNAME>

Anyone can download and install your environment from Anaconda Cloud:

    conda env create user/my-environment
    source activate my-environment