How to install Anaconda on RaspBerry Pi 3 Model B

Question

I would like to know how to install the latest Anaconda version from Continuum on my Raspberry Pi 3 model B. Any help would be appreciated...

Answer 1

On Raspberry Pi 3 Model B - Installation of Miniconda (bundled with Python 3)

Go and get the latest version of miniconda for Raspberry Pi - made for armv7l processor and bundled with Python 3 (eg.: uname -m)

wget http://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-armv7l.sh
md5sum Miniconda3-latest-Linux-armv7l.sh
bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-armv7l.sh

After installation, source your updated .bashrc file with source ~/.bashrc. Then enter the command python --version, which should give you:

Python 3.4.3 :: Continuum Analytics, Inc.

Answer 2

Installing Miniconda on Raspberry Pi and adding Python 3.5 / 3.6 / 3.7

Skip the first section if you have already installed Miniconda successfully.

Installation of Miniconda on Raspberry Pi

wget http://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-armv7l.sh
sudo md5sum Miniconda3-latest-Linux-armv7l.sh
sudo /bin/bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-armv7l.sh

Accept the license agreement with yes

When asked, change the install location: /home/pi/miniconda3

Do you wish the installer to prepend the Miniconda3 install location to PATH in your /root/.bashrc ? yes

Now add the install path to the PATH variable:

sudo nano /home/pi/.bashrc

Go to the end of the file .bashrc and add the following line:

export PATH="/home/pi/miniconda3/bin:$PATH"

Save the file and exit.

To test if the installation was successful, open a new terminal and enter

conda

If you see a list with commands you are ready to go.

But how can you use Python versions greater than 3.4 ?

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Adding Python 3.5 / 3.6 / 3.7 to Miniconda on Raspberry Pi

After the installation of Miniconda I could not yet install Python versions higher than Python 3.4, but i needed Python 3.5. Here is the solution which worked for me on my Raspberry Pi 4:

First i added the Berryconda package manager by jjhelmus (kind of an up-to-date version of the armv7l version of Miniconda):

conda config --add channels rpi

Only now I was able to install Python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 without the need for compiling it myself:

conda install python=3.5
conda install python=3.6
conda install python=3.7

Afterwards I was able to create environments with the added Python version, e.g. with Python 3.5:

conda create --name py35 python=3.5

The new environment "py35" can now be activated:

source activate py35

I hope this solution will work for you too!

Answer 3

If you're interested in generalizing to different architectures, you could also run the command above and substitute uname -m in with backticks like so:

wget http://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-`uname -m`.sh

Answer 4

I was trying to run this on a pi zero. Turns out the pi zero has an armv6l architecture so the above won't work for pi zero or pi one. Alternatively here I learned that miniconda doesn't have a recent version of miniconda. Instead I used the same instructions posted here to install berryconda3

Conda is now working. Hope this helps those of you interested in running conda on the pi zero!