Conda environment set up instructions for capstone project

Install Miniconda

1. Log into server. Open a Terminal.
2. In terminal, run wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
3. After download complete, run bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh. Accept all defaults.
4. Add conda to your PATH variable by running nano ~/.bashrc, and adding this line to the bottom of the file: export PATH="~/miniconda3/bin:$PATH"
5. Run source ~/.bashrc to update your PATH variable. Run conda --version and make sure that conda is properly installed; it should return the version number.

Create the capstone conda environment

1. Download/copy+paste the environment.yml file in this repository to your project folder.
2. In the terminal, change to the project folder directory containing the environment.yml file.
3. Run conda env create -f environment.yml to re-create the capstone conda environment. It should install the libraries as specified in the environment.yml file.
4. After it completes installing the libraries, run conda activate capstone to activate the conda environment.
5. Run jupyter lab to start a Jupyter Lab instance. A Firefox window should pop up with a running JupyterLab session. You can work on your notebooks from here.