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Package ID
anaconda3
Version
2026.7.0
Downloads
2287738
Website
https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual

Summary

The most trusted Python distribution for data science

Description

Anaconda® is a package manager, an environment manager, a Python distribution, and a collection of over 1,000+ open source packages. It is free and easy to install, and it offers free community support.

Anaconda Distribution contains conda and Anaconda Navigator. You can try both conda and Navigator to see which is right for you to manage your packages and environments. You can even switch between them, and the work you do with one can be viewed in the other.

Download the Anaconda Cheat Sheet (694 KB PDF) for a quick guide to using Anaconda, or take a look at DataCamp.com’s “Cheat Sheet For Beginners”.

Package Defaults

Anaconda Python:

  • will install for all users
  • will be registered as the default Python
  • will install to $ChocolateyToolsLocation\Anaconda3 (i.e. C:\Tools\Anaconda3 by default)
  • will not be added to the path

You can change any of the defaults with package parameters:

  • /JustMe - Install for only the current user.
  • /DoNotRegister - Do not register Anaconda Python as the default Python.
  • /D:(path) - Choose another, existing, parent directory to place the ‘Anaconda3’ directory.
  • /AddToPath - Add Anaconda Python to the path. Note: As of Anaconda Distribution 2022.05, the option to add Anaconda to the PATH environment variable during an All Users installation (the default for this package) has been disabled. This was done to address a security exploit. You can still add Anaconda to the PATH environment variable during a JustMe installation.
Example :

choco install anaconda3 --params '"/AddToPath /D:c:\MyTools"'

64-bit only

The 2022.05 release is the last of Anaconda Distribution that will support Windows 32-bit (win-32).

Note on updating Anaconda3

In order to protect customized configurations, the Anaconda3 distribution installer will not install over existing installs making upgrading via Chocolatey more complicated. This package allows for two options:

  1. Uninstall Anaconda3 completely and re-install from the distribution installer as a new install. If you just use the base environment and do not create any additional environments the Anaconda3 directory, this should be safe. This option will take a long time! Use the package parameter /Fresh for this option. E.G. choco upgrade anaconda3 --params '"/Fresh"'
  2. [Default] Use the Conda integrated package manager to update Anaconda3 internal packages in the base environment to the distribution installer equivalent metapackage. The assumption of this Chocolatey package is that users advanced enough to create additional environments will also be knowledgeable enough to update those environments as needed using Conda directly and outside of Chocolatey.

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