Using Ubuntu - mikec964/chelmbigstock GitHub Wiki

Install git

You can install git from Ubuntu Software Center but the version is a little old. To install the latest one, run commands below from terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install git

Initialize git directory

Make a directory for git projects. Go to the directory and run this command:

git init

Actually python 2.7.6 comes with Ubuntu 14.04 by default. If you don't need packages for data analytic, you are all set.

Installing anaconda

If you install anaconda properly, you can easily switch python 2 and 3 back and forth. Here's how I installed it on my machine.

1. Install anaconda
I used the full installer. Download it from http://continuum.io/downloads
Then run the command:

$ bash Anaconda-1.x.x-Linux-x86[_64].sh

This installs python 2.

2. Create python 3 environment
Restart the shell and run this command:

$ conda create -n py3k python=3 anaconda

py3k is the name of the python 3 environment. This sets up the python 3 environment but the default environment is still python 2.

3. Switch the environment between 2 and 3
To switch the environment from 2 to 3, run

$ source activate py3k

To switch back to 2, run

$ source deactivate