Conda on M1 Mac with Miniforge

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With Apple’s new M1 architecture based on ARM64, Anaconda does not support M1 natively yet. So to utilize full performance of M1, we’re to install conda with miniforge which has native support on M1.

You could go on Miniforge GitHub, and follow instruction running shell script. But we have easier way to install useful programs easily on MacOS. Homebrew is way to go.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Type above onto a Terminal window and execute. Once it’s done you’re ready to use Homebrew.

Install Miniforge

With Homebrew installed, open terminal and type:

brew install miniforge

After installation is completed, you’re almost ready to use $conda command. You need to source what’s on your .bashrc or .zshrc.

Run conda init zsh and restart terminal you’re done.