installing packages with pip#
All of the packages that we will use in this module can be installed using conda. However, in the course of
your programming project, and especially later on, you may come across packages that are not available through
any conda channels.
Most likely, if they are an officially distributed package of some sort, they will be available via the
Python Package Index (PyPI), which means that they can be installed using a program called
pip.
To install a package using pip, you should first install it into the conda environment you are working in, using
either Anaconda Navigator or the conda command line interface:
conda install -c conda-forge pip
Once pip is installed, open an Anaconda Command Prompt, activate the conda environment you
want to install the package into, and enter the following command:
pip install <package>
Warning
Make sure that you have the correct environment activated! If you don’t, pip will install the package into
the base environment.
For more information on how to install packages using pip, have a look at the
official documentation
It’s also important to note that mixing pip and conda can cause issues with dependencies, so before you run
off to install everything using pip, have a look at the following recommendations from the developers of conda: