Installing Miniconda on Mac Osx

The reason we need conda is we would like to create a separate environment. There might be cases where packages in your machine are conflicting with other packages in your environment.

Conda is an open-source package management system and environment management system that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Conda quickly installs, runs, and updates packages and their dependencies. Conda easily creates, saves, loads, and switches between environments on your local computer. It was created for Python programs but it can package and distribute software for any language.

Conda as a package manager helps you find and install packages. If you need a package that requires a different version of Python, you do not need to switch to a different environment manager because conda is also an environment manager. With just a few commands, you can set up a totally separate environment to run that different version of Python, while continuing to run your usual version of Python in your normal environment.

Go to miniconda mac os x installer web page — https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html#macosx-installers

Click on the Miniconda Mac OSX 64-bit.pkg python 3.8 install. You can install the bash installer or the visual installer. I am going for the visual installer.

Accept all the default settings in the visual installer.

In order to validate our conda installation we will run a conda command.

conda info --env

By default conda creates a base environment.