Conda – the package manager

After we launch Anaconda Prompt and issue conda help, we will see the following output:

From the previous help menu, we know that we can install, update, and uninstall a package. Usually, we can use conda to install a package. However, we may receive an error message (see the following example):

To update conda itself, we use conda update -n base conda command, as shown here:

We could find more information about specific Python packages by using the search function, as shown here:

The following table lists several of the most used commands:

Command	Explanation
Conda help Conda info	Get help about the usages of conda
conda update -n base conda	Get information related to conda, such as the current version, base environment and the related websites
conda search matplotlib	Find all versions about this specific Python package...