The conda-forge channel is generally considered to be more up-to-date then the Anaconda Main channel This is the default channel when using mamba. conda-forge: a community-managed channel for sharing python packages.mamba installs packages by default from conda-forge The Anaconda tools install packages by default from a channel called Main that is managed by Anaconda Inc. channel: when you install a package it comes from a online source called a channel.A company called QuantStack led the development of an open source replacement package for conda called mamba that is much faster. mamba: the conda command line tools for installing packages turned out to be quite slow in practice.The miniconda distribution is also controlled by Anaconda Inc. Miniconda was created as a more minimal distribution of python and command line tools to manage python virtual environment and installation of python packages. Miniconda: the original Anaconda distribution is a large download that contains numerous optional packages.The Anaconda distribution is controlled by Anaconda Inc. Anaconda: a distribution of python and conda command line tools to manage python virtual environment and installation of python packages.

Anaconda Inc.: a private company that created the Anaconda distribution.

Here is a quick lowdown on what the key terms refer to: There are a lot of related and similar-sounding terms being thrown around in this space and it can get confusing trying to keep track of all of them.

When asked “Do you want to installer to initialize Miniconda by running conda init” then type “yes”.

Wait for the installer to finish (at least 30 seconds).

Press Enter to page through the licence.

Run the installer bash file bash Mambaforge-MacOSX-x86_64.sh or the Linux equivalent.

Change directory to your Downloads directory cd ~/Downloads.

Once the download has finished open a terminal.

For Linux select the x86_64 (amd64) installation and for Mac OS select the x86_64 (unless you have a new Apple Silicon chip).

Tick the second box to accept the recommendation to make mamba your default python environment (I didn’t do this in the video).

Select the x86_64 Windows installation.

Miniconda download