Links and instructions for local miniconda (and anaconda ...) installation

[emiliom]

Starting this issue to help us/me remember to do this. We haven't decided yet where we'll want to put such instructions, whether in this repo's README file, in the README for github.com/BiG-CZ/bigcz_wshp2017, or in some other, new document in that repo.

I've added links and a tiny bit of text (all mainly from @lsetiawan) here, for now.

And here's useful text regarding Anaconda pitfalls, from Steve:

but the topic of Anaconda installation came up during the last call. When installing Anaconda on top of an ArcGIS installation, I do NOT check the box asking to modify the system registry in Windows. I DO check the box to add Anaconda python to the PATH environment variable.

This is the exact opposite that Anaconda suggests you do in the installation. This setup allows you to invoke Anaconda python from the command line by typing “python”, but does not associate .py file with Anaconda python. I have run into awful problems with ArcGIS when checking the box to modify the system registry.

Use this method if you’d like to keep your system/ArcGIS Python installation separate from your Anaconda Python distribution. There are other techniques for merging the two, but I have never wanted to even approach that on purpose.

[emiliom]

@lsetiawan, did you add the miniconda instructions? If so, where?

[aufdenkampe]

Please post a link to those instructions (or paste those instructions) here:
https://github.com/BiG-CZ/bigcz_wshp2017/blob/master/Topics/4-IntallingODM2Conda.md

[lsetiawan]

Working on it. It's currently on conda_inst branch of this repo.

[emiliom]

I've merged your PR just now. Pasting into Anthony's page seems like the easiest way to go, w/o bothering with a PR.

[lsetiawan]

Done: https://github.com/BiG-CZ/bigcz_wshp2017/blob/master/Topics/4-InstallingODM2Conda.md

[emiliom]

I'll reopen this for a couple of reasons. We should add:

• Instructions about cloning the workshop github repo
• Instructions for people who don't have git installed (!)
• Rearrange the text so that miniconda is mentioned before anaconda, and we make it explicit about possible conflicts with anaconda that we want to avoid by recommending miniconda