setting up anaconda with virtual environment anaconda is python code package that' especially useful for data science the default installation will have many tools data scientist might use in our book we'll use the -bit version because it often remains more stable with many python packages (especially the sql oneswhile we recommend using anacondathis is in no way required in this appendixwe'll cover installing and setting up anaconda instructions for linux and windows installations are includedfollowed by environment setup instructions if you know thing or two about using python packagesfeel free to do it your own way for instanceyou could use virtualenv and pip libraries linux installation to install anaconda on linux go to for the -bit version of anaconda based on python when the download is done use the following command to install anacondabash anaconda -linux- sh we need to get the conda command working in the linux command prompt anaconda will ask you whether it needs to do thatso answer "yes