How to install Anaconda (conda) in Ubuntu/Linux

Anaconda is a packaging tool and installer.

The main difference between Anaconda and pip is that anaconda works for python and also non-python packages where as pip is only for python packages.

1.Download anaconda

Download either for Python 2.7 (32bit/64bit) or Python 3.5 (32bit/64bit)
Just download any one of these.

For Python 2.7
64 bit

wget https://3230d63b5fc54e62148e-c95ac804525aac4b6dba79b00b39d1d3.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/Anaconda2-2.5.0-Linux-x86_64.sh

32 bit

wget https://3230d63b5fc54e62148e-c95ac804525aac4b6dba79b00b39d1d3.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/Anaconda2-2.5.0-Linux-x86.sh

For Python 3.5
64 bit

wget https://3230d63b5fc54e62148e-c95ac804525aac4b6dba79b00b39d1d3.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/Anaconda3-2.5.0-Linux-x86_64.sh

32 bit

wget https://3230d63b5fc54e62148e-c95ac804525aac4b6dba79b00b39d1d3.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/Anaconda3-2.5.0-Linux-x86.sh

2. Install anaconda

bash Anaconda*.sh

3. Verify if conda was installed

conda --version

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