For Windows:

Assuming Spyder as well as Python are installed on Windows you perform the following steps to make librarys available in Spyder:

Navigate to the location where you installed Anaconda

cd c:\anaconda2

Create a virtual enviornment:

conda create -n somenameofmyenvironment python=2.7

Activate the virtual environment:

source activate myenv (Mac)

activate myenv

Install packages to environment:

conda install -n somenameofmyenvironment [packagename]

Install Spyder within the environment:

conda install spyder

Run Spyder:

spyder

Deactivate environment:

source deactivate (MAC)

Delete environment:

conda remove -n somenameofmyenvironment -all

Provides List with all environments known by conda:

conda env list

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