Miniforge installation

Download and installation

The Miniforge distribution can be downloaded here. The installation is typically done by typing in a terminal:

$ bash /PATH/TO/MINIFORGE_INSTALLER.sh
The basic differences of Miniconda with respect to the Anaconda distribution are:

  • Miniconda comes with conda-forge channel already added

  • the conda command is now replaced by the mamba command

Create an environment

After installation, Miniforge comes with a very minimun set of packages. The best way to install new packages is using environments. To create and activate an environment, here named jlab, simply type:

mamba create -n jlab python=3.11
mamba activate jlab

Within this environment you can now install new packages. Here follows a list of commands to create a quite complete environment for data analysis. For more information on these packages have a look here.

mamba install jupyterlab hvplot scikit-image nexusformat xarray-lmfit
pip install nxarray lmfitxps