Installing modules to Anaconda from .tar.gz

There are several ways to achieve this, I'm describing one here, which should be relatively straight forward, even if your default python variable is not anaconda's.

1. Check what is your desired anaconda environment (if you're not sure what does this mean, it probably means that you are using root, the default environment)
2. Run: conda info --envs to see the path where your environment is installed
3. Go to that path, and find the absolute path to python.exe, for example: "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\python.exe"
4. Now, run the following command:

<absolute path to python.exe> -m pip install <path to tar.gz>

for example:

C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\python.exe -m pip install c:\mymodule\great.tar.gz

Note that <path to tar.gz> can be relative, absolute and even an online link.

Here is how to do :

Q:\anaconda3\Scripts>conda install q:\quandl-3.4.4-py37_0.tar.bz2

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It depends on where your archive comes from:

• If you got it from pypi, you need to install it using pip:

pip install package.tar.gz
# Or:
python -m pip install package.tar.gz

• If you got it from conda-forge, you need to use conda:

conda install package.tar.gz

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If you have multiple python installations, you may need to specify absolute path to the python/conda executable.

Note that the archive files on pypi and conda-forge are usually very different:

• pypi archives contain source files, so you may need to build the package in order to install it, which may requires external dependencies;
• conda-forge are architecture-specific and contains pre-built package, which are much less likely to require external dependencies.

If you already have a working Anaconda distribution, I would encourage you to get archives from conda-forge instead of pypi.