What are the differences between Conda and Anaconda?

Question

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See Introduction to Conda for more details.

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The problem:

I first installed Anaconda

Answer 1

conda is the package manager. Anaconda is a set of about a hundred packages including conda, numpy, scipy, ipython notebook, and so on.

You installed Miniconda, which is a smaller alternative to Anaconda that is just conda and its dependencies, not those listed above.

Once you have Miniconda, you can easily install Anaconda into it with conda install anaconda.