Anaconda is a kind of python related packages installer. Using Anaconda, NumPy, SciPy, MatPlotLib, iPython, etc are installed by using a single script file on Linux (must be similar on Windows and Mac). # for 64-bit version Linux wget http://09c8d0b2229f813c1b93-c95ac804525aac4b6dba79b00b39d1d3.r79.cf1.rackcdn.com/Anaconda-1.9.1-Linux-x86_64.sh