You’ll get a prompt during installation that asks, “Do you wish the installer to initialize Anaconda3 by running conda init?” That one is great because you can decide during installation that you want your terminal to communicate with Anaconda. Unwilling to give up, I uninstalled Anaconda and then tried the command-line installation. It worked fine as an application, but it just wouldn’t work with my terminal. The first time I decided to download Anaconda, I went through the normal graphical Mac installation. The official installation guide is here if you feel like checking it out. No one else should have to go through that. You can see everything that I did to make my terminal awesome here, but essentially, it’s running

After spending some time working in the terminal, I had turned it into something that was fast, efficient, and also very nice to look at. I work on a MacOS (Mojave, if you’re interested).

But none of them make any sense when it’s all new! Just Googling your questions can be challenging. As you start to understand more of the language and commands that you need to make things work, you’ll find that there are plenty of simple answers out there. It’s not an easy thing to get started in machine learning and artificial intelligence, and being unable to get the necessary tools correctly installed is just crippling. There’s nothing more frustrating than not even being able to open the program that you need. There’s no handy link sitting there that will tell you what to do. “Conda” didn’t work the first time I installed it.

Conda update