!conda config --add channels conda-forge
!conda config --set channel_priority strictIntroduction to Data Science
Already installed Anaconda? Fix your account here.
Important Information
- Email: joanna_bieri@redlands.edu
- Office Hours take place in Duke 209 – Office Hours Schedule
- Class Website: data101.joannabieri.com
This page is only for students who already installed Anaconda. If you have not installed anything yet, skip this page completely and go to the Computer Setup page instead. We are using Miniforge this semester and you do not need an Anaconda account at all.
What happened
If you installed Anaconda and it started asking you about a license, or asking what company you work for, you did not do anything wrong and you did not break your computer. Anaconda changed the way they handle sign ups and the form is confusing, especially since none of us work for a company.
Here is the short version:
Anaconda is free for us. It is free for students, teachers, and researchers at accredited universities when it is being used for a class. Nobody is going to charge you anything. They just make you create an account first now, and that account form asks about your organization.
So you have two choices, and both of them are fine:
- Make the account properly, using your Redlands email. Takes about three minutes. Steps are below.
- Skip the account entirely by using Miniforge instead, which is what the Computer Setup page now tells everyone to do.
If you already have Anaconda installed and working, option 1 is less hassle. Keep reading.
1. Make your Anaconda account with your Redlands email
Click the link below to open the sign up page in a new browser window.
Choose Sign up to make a new account.
Use your University of Redlands email address (the one that ends in
@redlands.edu). This is the important part! Your Redlands email is what tells Anaconda that you are a student and that your account should be free.When it asks for your Organization or Company, type:
University of RedlandsCreate a password.
Check your University of Redlands email for a verification message and click the link inside it.
Go back and sign in.
That’s it. Open Anaconda Navigator again and it should stop bothering you.
2. Did you already type in the wrong organization?
Lots of people put in something random just to get past the form, and that is easy to fix. Do not make a second account with a different email. Two accounts causes more problems than it solves.
To fix the one you have:
- Go to anaconda.com and sign in.
- Click your user icon in the top right corner to open the dropdown menu.
- Choose Account Settings.
- Find the Profile section and click Edit.
- Change your organization to
University of Redlands. - Click Update Profile.
Same idea if you signed up with a personal email instead of your Redlands one, you can update the email on your account in that same Account Settings page.
If you cannot find the setting, or it will not save, do not spend your evening fighting with it. Email me or come to office hours and we will sort it out together.
3. Do I have to uninstall Anaconda and switch to Miniforge?
No! If Anaconda is installed and JupyterLab opens, you are in good shape. Keep it.
There is one thing I want you to do so that your setup matches everyone else’s in the class. Open JupyterLab, open any notebook, and run the cell below one time. This tells your computer to get its Python packages from conda-forge, which is the same free community collection that the Miniforge students will be using.
Doing this means we are all installing the exact same packages from the exact same place, so when something goes wrong in week 6 I can actually help you.
You only need to run that once, not before every class.
After that, go back to the Computer Setup page and pick up at the GitHub steps. Everything from there on is identical whether you have Anaconda or Miniforge.
Still stuck?
Come see me. Computer setup problems are the least interesting part of this class and they are not worth your time, we will get it working and move on to the fun stuff.