Anaconda

ROOT and a Python in a unique environment

Installing Anaconda

Just download it from the official page and launch the bash commands, as writte in the installation guide there: https://www.anaconda.com/

Anaconda gives you a lot of usefuld default packages, miniconda will give you a minimal setup with the conda installer

Creating a conda environment with ROOT

$ conda create --name my-root-env --channel conda-forge-python=3 root

This will install ROOT and other default packages from Anaconda.

Then enter your environment with:

$ conda activate my-root-env

Installed environments can be listed with:

$ conda env list

If you want to return to conda base environment, just launch

$ conda deactivate

Adding packages

Just use:

$ conda install packagename