Installing Miniconda

This page contains basic Miniconda installation instructions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, as well as a command-line quickstart installation guide.

On Windows, macOS, and Linux, it is best to install Miniconda for the local user, which does not require administrator permissions and is the most robust type of installation. However, if you need to, you can install Miniconda system wide, which does require administrator permissions.

Basic install instructions

Windows installation

Download the installer from the Anaconda website or by using your preferred command line interface:
Navigate to anaconda.com/download, register with Anaconda (if desired), scroll down past the Anaconda Distribution installers, and select the 64-bit Windows Miniconda installer.
Navigate to anaconda.com/download, register with Anaconda (if desired), scroll down past the Anaconda Distribution installers, and select the 64-bit Windows Miniconda installer.
Open a Command Prompt window and run the following command:
curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Windows-x86_64.exe --output .\Downloads\Miniconda3-latest-Windows-x86_64.exe
View a full list of Miniconda installers in the official Miniconda archive.
To download a different version of Miniconda, copy the Filename of an installer from the Miniconda archive, then download it using a curl command:
# Replace <FILENAME> with the installer Filename you copied from the Miniconda archive curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/<FILENAME> --output <FILENAME>
Ensure that you are downloading an installer that is compatible with your operating system!
Open a PowerShell window and run the following command:
wget "https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Windows-x86_64.exe" -outfile ".\Downloads\Miniconda3-latest-Windows-x86_64.exe"
View a full list of Miniconda installers in the official Miniconda archive.
To download a different version of Miniconda, copy the Filename of an installer from the Miniconda archive, then download it using a wget command:
# Replace <FILENAME> with the installer Filename you copied from the Miniconda archive wget "https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/<FILENAME>"" -outfile ".\Downloads\<FILENAME>"
Ensure that you are downloading an installer that is compatible with your operating system!
(Recommended) Verify the integrity of your installer to ensure that it was not corrupted or tampered with during download.
To ensure that your downloaded installer has not been tampered with or corrupted, generate its SHA-256 hash value and compare it to the official hash provided in the archive.
1. Open PowerShell and run the following command:
  # Replace <INSTALLER_FILE> with the name of the downloaded installer file Get-FileHash .\Downloads\<INSTALLER_FILE> -Algorithm SHA256
  For example:
  Get-FileHash .\Downloads\Miniconda3-latest-Windows-x86_64.exe -Algorithm SHA256
2. Note the generated SHA-256 hash value from the output.
3. Visit repo.anaconda.com/miniconda to find the official SHA-256 hash for your installer.
4. Compare the hash values. If they match, the installer is safe to use.
For more information, see cryptographic hash verification in the official conda documentation.
Go to your Downloads folder (or Home folder if downloaded via CLI) and double-click the installer to launch.

To prevent permission errors, do not launch the installer from the Favorites folder.

If you encounter issues during installation, temporarily disable your anti-virus software during install, then re-enable it after the installation concludes. If you installed for All Users, uninstall Miniconda and re-install it for Just Me only.
Click Next and then agree to Anaconda’s Terms of Service (TOS) .
Select an installation option:
- Just Me (Recommended) - Install Miniconda for the current user account.
- All Users - Install Miniconda for all user accounts on the computer (requires Windows Administrator privileges).
Click Next.
Select a destination folder to install Miniconda, then click Next.
- The installation directory path cannot contain spaces or Unicode characters. For more information, see the FAQ.
- Do not install as Administrator unless admin privileges are required.
Customize your installation options:
- Create shortcuts - Selected by default. Creates Start Menu shortcuts for the Anaconda Prompt packages. Deselecting this option skips creating these shortcuts.
- Add Miniconda3 to my PATH environment variable - Adds the path that contains the conda binaries to your PATH environment variable.
Anaconda does not recommend selecting this option. The conda binaries path contains other package binaries, which are permanently added to your PATH environment variable, even if no conda environment is currently active. This makes it possible for other software to use these package files, which might lead to errors.

Unless you plan on installing and running multiple versions of Miniconda or Python, open Anaconda Prompt from the Start Menu to begin your environment management work.
- Register Miniconda3 as my default Python 3.12 - Selected by default. Registers the Python package in this install as the default Python for programs like VSCode, PyCharm, and so on.
- Clear the package cache upon completion - Runs conda clean --all --force-pkgs-dirs after the install finishes. For more information on these commands, see the conda command documentation.
Click Install. The installation might take a few minutes to complete. Click Show details to view the packages being installed.
Click Next twice, then click Finish to close the installer.

For information on installing in silent mode, see the Quick command line install commands for examples or the Installing in silent mode section of Installing on Windows in the conda project documentation.

macOS/Linux installation

The graphical installer for macOS installs Miniconda into /opt/miniconda3 in your file system. If you want to install Miniconda into your Home directory or if you have multiple users on a system and want to manage your installation more carefully, Anaconda recommends the shell (or command line) installer.

Navigate to anaconda.com/download, register with Anaconda (if desired), scroll down past the Anaconda Distribution installers, and select the macOS Miniconda installer for your chip architecture.
(Optional) Anaconda recommends verifying the integrity of the installer after downloading it.
To ensure that your downloaded installer has not been tampered with or corrupted, generate its SHA-256 hash value and compare it to the official hash provided in the archive.
1. Open Terminal and run the following command:
  # Replace <FILE_NAME> with the path to your installer shasum -a 256 <FILE_NAME>
  For example:
  shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-arm64.pkg
2. Note the generated SHA-256 hash value from the output.
3. Visit repo.anaconda.com/miniconda to find the official SHA-256 hash for your installer.
4. Compare the hash values. If they match, the installer is safe to use.
For more information, see cryptographic hash verification in the official conda documentation.
Double-click the .pkg file.
View the Read Me instructions and click Continue.
Read through Anaconda’s Terms of Service (TOS) and click Continue, then click Agree to agree to the terms.
Choose an install location:
- Install for all users of this computer (Recommended) - Installs Miniconda into /opt/miniconda3 for all users of the computer.
- Install on a specific disk - Enables you to choose a different location to install Miniconda.
Click Install. When the installation finishes, open your terminal application.

You should see (base) in the command line prompt. This tells you that you’re in your base conda environment. To learn more about environments, see Environments.
Test your installation by running conda list. If conda has been installed correctly, a list of installed packages appears.

Navigate to anaconda.com/download, register with Anaconda (if desired), scroll down past the Anaconda Distribution installers, and select the macOS Miniconda installer for your chip architecture.
(Optional) Anaconda recommends verifying the integrity of the installer after downloading it.
To ensure that your downloaded installer has not been tampered with or corrupted, generate its SHA-256 hash value and compare it to the official hash provided in the archive.
1. Open Terminal and run the following command:
  # Replace <FILE_NAME> with the path to your installer shasum -a 256 <FILE_NAME>
  For example:
  shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-arm64.pkg
2. Note the generated SHA-256 hash value from the output.
3. Visit repo.anaconda.com/miniconda to find the official SHA-256 hash for your installer.
4. Compare the hash values. If they match, the installer is safe to use.
For more information, see cryptographic hash verification in the official conda documentation.
Double-click the .pkg file.
View the Read Me instructions and click Continue.
Read through Anaconda’s Terms of Service (TOS) and click Continue, then click Agree to agree to the terms.
Choose an install location:
- Install for all users of this computer (Recommended) - Installs Miniconda into /opt/miniconda3 for all users of the computer.
- Install on a specific disk - Enables you to choose a different location to install Miniconda.
Click Install. When the installation finishes, open your terminal application.

You should see (base) in the command line prompt. This tells you that you’re in your base conda environment. To learn more about environments, see Environments.
Test your installation by running conda list. If conda has been installed correctly, a list of installed packages appears.

Download the .sh installer using the following command:
curl -O https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-arm64.sh
View a full list of Miniconda installers in the official Miniconda archive.
To download a different version of Miniconda, copy the Filename of an installer from the archive, then download it using a curl command:
# Replace <FILENAME> with the installer Filename you copied from the archive curl -O https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/<FILENAME>
Ensure that you are downloading an installer that is compatible with your operating system!
(Optional) Anaconda recommends verifying the integrity of the installer after downloading it.
To ensure that your downloaded installer has not been tampered with or corrupted, generate its SHA-256 hash value and compare it to the official hash provided in the archive.
1. Open Terminal and run the following command:
  # Replace <FILE_NAME> with the path to your installer shasum -a 256 <FILE_NAME>
  For example:
  shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-arm64.sh
2. Note the generated SHA-256 hash value from the output.
3. Visit repo.anaconda.com/miniconda to find the official SHA-256 hash for your installer.
4. Compare the hash values. If they match, the installer is safe to use.
For more information, see cryptographic hash verification in the official conda documentation.
Install by running the following (depending on your macOS architecture):
bash ~/Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-arm64.sh
Press Return to review Anaconda’s Terms of Service (TOS). Then press and hold Return to scroll.
Enter yes to agree to the TOS.
Press Return to accept the default install location (PREFIX=/Users/<USER>/miniconda3), or enter another file path to specify an alternate installation directory. The installation might take a few minutes to complete.
Choose an initialization options:
- Yes - conda modifies your shell configuration to initialize conda whenever you open a new shell and to recognize conda commands automatically.
- No - conda will not modify your shell scripts. After installation, if you want to initialize, you must do so manually. For more information, see Manual shell initialization.
The installer finishes and displays, “Thank you for installing Miniconda3!”
Close and re-open your terminal window for the installation to fully take effect, or use the following command to refresh the terminal:
```
source ~/.zshrc
```
You should see (base) in the command line prompt. This tells you that you’re in your base conda environment. To learn more about environments, see Environments.
Test your installation by running conda list. If conda has been installed correctly, a list of installed packages appears.

Manual shell initialization

Once installation has successfully completed, initialize your shell by running the following command:

# Replace <PATH_TO_CONDA> with the path to your conda install
source <PATH_TO_CONDA>/bin/activate
conda init --all

macOS 10.15 and later use zsh as the default shell. Once installation process has completed, initialize conda in a zsh shell by running the following commands:

source <PATH_TO_CONDA>/bin/activate
conda init zsh

For information on installing in silent mode, see the Quick command line install commands for examples or the Installing in silent mode section of Installing on macOS in the conda project documentation.

Download the latest version of Miniconda by opening a terminal and running one of the following commands (depending on your Linux architecture):
wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-aarch64.sh
- The linux-aarch64 package builds might not be compatible with certain Raspberry Pi setups, as Anaconda uses compiler options that target the server-class Neoverse N1/N2 microarchitecture.
wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-s390x.sh
View a full list of Miniconda installers in the official Miniconda archive.
To download a different version of Miniconda, copy the Filename of an installer from the archive, then download it using a wget command:
# Replace <FILENAME> with the installer Filename you copied from the archive wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/<FILENAME>
Ensure that you are downloading an installer that is compatible with your operating system!
(Optional) Anaconda recommends verifying the integrity of the installer after downloading it.
To ensure that your downloaded installer has not been tampered with or corrupted, generate its SHA-256 hash value and compare it to the official hash provided in the archive.
1. Open Terminal and run the following command:
  # Replace <FILE_NAME> with the path to your installer sha256sum <FILE_NAME>
  For example:
  sha256sum ~/Downloads/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
2. Note the generated SHA-256 hash value from the output.
3. Visit repo.anaconda.com/miniconda to find the official SHA-256 hash for your installer.
4. Compare the hash values. If they match, the installer is safe to use.
For more information, see cryptographic hash verification in the official conda documentation.
Install Miniconda by running one of the following commands (depending on your Linux architecture):
bash ~/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
Press Return to review Anaconda’s Terms of Service (TOS). Then press and hold Return to scroll.
Enter yes to agree to the TOS.
Press Return to accept the default install location (PREFIX=/Users/<USER>/miniconda3), or enter another file path to specify an alternate installation directory. The installation might take a few minutes to complete.
Choose an initialization options:
- Yes - conda modifies your shell configuration to initialize conda whenever you open a new shell and to recognize conda commands automatically.
- No - conda will not modify your shell scripts. After installation, if you want to initialize, you must do so manually. For more information, see Manual shell initialization.
The installer finishes and displays, “Thank you for installing Miniconda3!”
Close and re-open your terminal window for the installation to fully take effect, or use the following command to refresh the terminal, depending on your shell:
source ~/.bashrc
You should see (base) in the command line prompt. This tells you that you’re in your base conda environment. To learn more about environments, see Environments.
Test your installation by running conda list. If conda has been installed correctly, a list of installed packages appears.

Manual shell initialization

Once installation has successfully completed, initialize your shell by running the following command:

# Replace <PATH_TO_CONDA> with the path to your conda install
source <PATH_TO_CONDA>/bin/activate
conda init --all

Verify your install

Quickstart install instructions

These command line instructions will get you set up quickly with the latest Miniconda installer. Follow the steps for your system to download and install Miniconda, then follow the steps in Verify your install above to verify your Miniconda installation.

These quick install commands run a silent install. If you run a silent install, you are accepting Anaconda’s Terms of Service (TOS) by default. Please make sure to review Anaconda’s full TOS here before proceeding with silent installations.

These three commands quickly and quietly download the latest 64-bit Windows installer, rename it to a shorter file name, perform a silent install, and then delete the installer:

curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Windows-x86_64.exe -o .\miniconda.exe
start /wait "" .\miniconda.exe /S
del .\miniconda.exe

To download an older version

You can find older versions of the Windows installer at <https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda>.

For example, to download an older version of Miniconda for Python 3.12 for a 64-bit Windows computer, replace the curl command for the latest installer with the following curl command instead:

curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-py312_24.5.0-0-Windows-x86_64.exe -o .\miniconda.exe

After installing, open the “Anaconda Prompt (miniconda3)” program to use Miniconda3.

These three commands quickly and quietly download the latest 64-bit Windows installer, rename it to a shorter file name, perform a silent install, and then delete the installer:

curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Windows-x86_64.exe -o .\miniconda.exe
start /wait "" .\miniconda.exe /S
del .\miniconda.exe

To download an older version

You can find older versions of the Windows installer at <https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda>.

For example, to download an older version of Miniconda for Python 3.12 for a 64-bit Windows computer, replace the curl command for the latest installer with the following curl command instead:

curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-py312_24.5.0-0-Windows-x86_64.exe -o .\miniconda.exe

After installing, open the “Anaconda Prompt (miniconda3)” program to use Miniconda3.

These three commands quickly and quietly download the latest 64-bit Windows installer, rename it to a shorter file name, perform a silent install, and then delete the installer:

wget "https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Windows-x86_64.exe" -outfile ".\miniconda.exe"
Start-Process -FilePath ".\miniconda.exe" -ArgumentList "/S" -Wait
del .\miniconda.exe

To download an older version

You can find older versions of the Windows installer at <https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/>.

For example, to download an older version of Miniconda for Python 3.12 for a 64-bit Windows computer, replace the wget command for the latest installer with the following wget command instead:

wget "https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-py312_24.5.0-0-Windows-x86_64.exe" -outfile ".\miniconda.exe"

After installing, open the “Anaconda Powershell Prompt (miniconda3)”.

Run the following four commands to download and install the latest macOS installer for your chosen chip architecture. Line by line, these commands:
- create a new directory named “miniconda3” in your home directory.
- download the macOS Miniconda installation script for your chosen chip architecture and save the script as miniconda.sh in the miniconda3 directory.
- run the miniconda.sh installation script in silent mode using bash.
- remove the miniconda.sh installation script file after installation is complete.
mkdir -p ~/miniconda3 curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-arm64.sh -o ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh bash ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh -b -u -p ~/miniconda3 rm ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh
You can find different versions of the macOS installer at <https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda>.
For example, to download an older version of Miniconda for Python 3.12 for an M1 macOS computer, replace the curl command for the latest installer with the following curl command instead:
curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-py312_24.5.0-0-MacOSX-arm64.sh -o ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh
Or to download an older version of Miniconda for Python 3.9 for an Intel chip macOS computer, replace the curl command for the latest installer with the following curl command instead:
mkdir -p ~/miniconda3 curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-py39_24.5.0-0-MacOSX-x86_64.sh -o ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh
After installing, close and reopen your terminal application or refresh it by running the following command:
```
source ~/miniconda3/bin/activate
```
Then, initialize conda on all available shells by running the following command:
```
conda init --all
```

If you don’t initialize conda after installation, you might see a “conda not found” error, even though conda is installed. See the Conda: command not found on macOS/Linux troubleshooting topic for possible solutions.

Run the following four commands to download and install the latest Linux installer for your chosen chip architecture. Line by line, these commands:
- create a new directory named “miniconda3” in your home directory.
- download the Linux Miniconda installation script for your chosen chip architecture and save the script as miniconda.sh in the miniconda3 directory.
- run the miniconda.sh installation script in silent mode using bash.
- remove the miniconda.sh installation script file after installation is complete.
mkdir -p ~/miniconda3 wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -O ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh bash ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh -b -u -p ~/miniconda3 rm ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh
You can find different versions of the macOS installer at <https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda>.
For example, to download an older version of Miniconda for Python 3.12 for an 64-bit version of Linux, replace the wget command for the latest installer with the following wget command instead:
wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-py312_24.5.0-0-Linux-x86_64.sh -O ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh
After installing, close and reopen your terminal application or refresh it by running the following command:
```
source ~/miniconda3/bin/activate
```
Then, initialize conda on all available shells by running the following command:
```
conda init --all
```

Getting Started

​Basic install instructions

​Quickstart install instructions

Basic install instructions

Quickstart install instructions