Software Installation on Linux

Download the Anaconda Python 3.4 installer and start the installation by executing bash <path/to/installer>:

Welcome to Anaconda3 2.1.0 (by Continuum Analytics, Inc.)

In order to continue the installation process, please review the license
agreement.
Please, press ENTER to continue
>>> ENTER

The “Anaconda END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT” will be displayed. Once you have read through it, type in “yes” to continue the installation:
Do you approve the license terms? [yes|no]
[no] >>> yes

Anaconda3 will now be installed into this location:
/home/testuser/anaconda3

  - Press ENTER to confirm the location
  - Press CTRL-C to abort the installation
  - Or specify an different location below

If you press ENTER above, the installation will start:

[/home/testuser/anaconda3] >>>
PREFIX=/home/testuser/anaconda3
installing: python-3.4.1-4 ...
installing: conda-3.7.0-py34_0
..

creating default environment...
installation finished.
Do you wish the installer to prepend the Anaconda3 install location
to PATH in your /home/testuser/.bashrc ? [yes|no]

We will type in “yes”:

[no] >>> yes

Prepending PATH=/home/testuser/anaconda3/bin to PATH in /home/testuser/.bashrc
A backup will be made to: /home/testuser/.bashrc-anaconda3.bak


For this change to become active, you have to open a new terminal.

Thank you for installing Anaconda3!

Open a new terminal for the next steps.

Updating sympy

We will first install/update sympy to make sure we have sympy-0.7.6 installed:

$ conda install sympy=0.7.6

Installing matplotlib-venn

Use the following command to install matplotlib-venn:

$ pip install matplotlib-venn

Starting Python shell

Open a new terminal and type in idle3 to start the IDLE editor or python to start the Python 3.4 shell. You should now be able to run all the programs and try out new ones.

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