

While Anaconda is the go to recommendation for most beginners for package management it has not yet been updated for the new arm based Mac processors.

Miniforge allows you to do the same things as anaconda withouth a graphical user interface. The anaconda software package in itself is great tool for managing python environments which allows you to have clean distinguished installations of multiple python versions connected with different packages.

Miniforge is a forge of the command line anaconda environment manager that contains builds for arm64 processors such as the apple M1 chip. Add Homebrew to your PATH in ~/.zprofile: echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' > ~/.zprofile eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)" Step 3 - Install Miniforge from Homebrew
