Miniconda is a free and open-source package manager for Python. It provides a large variety of packages and is designed for machine learning and data science projects. It can install on all popular operating systems including Windows, Linux, and macOS. Miniconda is used for scientific computing, predictive analytics, and data processing. It provides a conda command-line utility and Miniconda Navigator graphical interface to manage Python packages.
In this post, we will show you how to install Miniconda Python on Rocky Linux 10.
Step 1 – Install Required Dependencies
First, you will need to install some packages required to install Miniconda. You can install all those packages by running the following command:
dnf install libXi libXtst libXrandr libXcursor alsa-lib mesa-libEGL libXcomposite libXScrnSaver libXdamage mesa-libGL -y
Once all the packages are installed, you can move to the next step.
Step 2 – Download Miniconda Installer Script
Next, go to the Anaconda official download page and download the latest version of the Miniconda installer script using the wget command.
wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
Step 3 – Install Miniconda
Now, run the downloaded script to install Miniconda on your system.
bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
You will be asked to accept the license terms:
Welcome to Miniconda3 2021.11 In order to continue the installation process, please review the license agreement. Please, press ENTER to continue >>> Do you accept the license terms? [yes|no] [no] >>> yes
Type yes and press the Enter key to start the installation. You should see the following output:
Miniconda3 will now be installed into this location:
/root/miniconda3
- Press ENTER to confirm the location
- Press CTRL-C to abort the installation
- Or specify a different location below
[/root/miniconda3] >>>
PREFIX=/root/miniconda3
Preparing transaction: done
Executing transaction: \
Installed package of scikit-learn can be accelerated using scikit-learn-intelex.
More details are available here: https://intel.github.io/scikit-learn-intelex
For example:
$ conda install scikit-learn-intelex
$ python -m sklearnex my_application.py
done
installation finished.
Do you wish the installer to initialize Miniconda3
by running conda init? [yes|no]
[no] >>> yes
Type yes and press the Enter key to initialize Miniconda. You will get the following output:
==> For changes to take effect, close and re-open your current shell. <== If you'd prefer that conda's base environment not be activated on startup, set the auto_activate_base parameter to false: conda config --set auto_activate_base false Thank you for installing Miniconda3!
Now, run the following command to activate the Miniconda:
source .bashrc
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Step 4 – Verify the Miniconda Installation
At this point, Miniconda is installed on your system. You can now verify the Miniconda installation using the following command:
conda info
You should see the following output:
active environment : base
active env location : /root/miniconda3
shell level : 1
user config file : /root/.condarc
populated config files : /root/miniconda3/.condarc
conda version : 25.7.0
conda-build version : not installed
python version : 3.13.5.final.0
solver : libmamba (default)
virtual packages : __archspec=1=haswell
__conda=25.7.0=0
__glibc=2.39=0
__linux=6.12.0=0
__unix=0=0
base environment : /root/miniconda3 (writable)
conda av data dir : /root/miniconda3/etc/conda
conda av metadata url : None
channel URLs : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/linux-64
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/linux-64
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
package cache : /root/miniconda3/pkgs
/root/.conda/pkgs
envs directories : /root/miniconda3/envs
/root/.conda/envs
platform : linux-64
user-agent : conda/25.7.0 requests/2.32.4 CPython/3.13.5 Linux/6.12.0-55.21.1.el10_0.x86_64 rocky/10.0 glibc/2.39 solver/libmamba conda-libmamba-solver/25.4.0 libmambapy/2.0.5 aau/0.7.2 c/. s/. e/.
UID:GID : 0:0
netrc file : None
offline mode : False
You can also list all packages included in the Miniconda repository using the following command:
conda list
You will get a full list of packages in the following output:
# packages in environment at /root/miniconda3: # # Name Version Build Channel _ipyw_jlab_nb_ext_conf 0.1.0 py39h06a4308_0 _libgcc_mutex 0.1 main _openmp_mutex 4.5 1_gnu alabaster 0.7.12 pyhd3eb1b0_0 anaconda 2021.11 py39_0 anaconda-client 1.9.0 py39h06a4308_0 anaconda-navigator 2.1.1 py39_0 anaconda-project 0.10.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 anyio 2.2.0 py39h06a4308_1 appdirs 1.4.4 pyhd3eb1b0_0 argh 0.26.2 py39h06a4308_0 argon2-cffi 20.1.0 py39h27cfd23_1 arrow 0.13.1 py39h06a4308_0
Step 5 – Update Miniconda Package
To update the Miniconda package, you will need to update conda first. You can update it with the following command:
conda update conda
You will get the following output:
The following packages will be downloaded:
package | build
---------------------------|-----------------
ca-certificates-2025.9.9 | h06a4308_0 127 KB
certifi-2025.10.5 | py313h06a4308_0 158 KB
conda-25.9.1 | py313h06a4308_0 1.2 MB
openssl-3.0.18 | hd6dcaed_0 4.5 MB
------------------------------------------------------------
Total: 5.9 MB
The following packages will be UPDATED:
ca-certificates 2025.7.15-h06a4308_0 --> 2025.9.9-h06a4308_0
certifi 2025.8.3-py313h06a4308_0 --> 2025.10.5-py313h06a4308_0
conda 25.7.0-py313h06a4308_0 --> 25.9.1-py313h06a4308_0
openssl 3.0.17-h5eee18b_0 --> 3.0.18-hd6dcaed_0
Next, install Miniconda using the following command:
conda update miniconda
Step 6 – Uninstall Miniconda
If you want to remove the Miniconda package from your system, you will need to install the Miniconda removal package in your system. You can install it with the following command:
conda install anaconda-clean
You will get the following output:
The following packages will be downloaded:
package | build
---------------------------|-----------------
anaconda-clean-1.1.0 | py39h06a4308_1 7 KB
------------------------------------------------------------
Total: 7 KB
The following NEW packages will be INSTALLED:
anaconda-clean pkgs/main/linux-64::anaconda-clean-1.1.0-py39h06a4308_1
Proceed ([y]/n)? y
Next, run the following command to remove the Anaconda package.
anaconda-clean
You will get the following output:
Delete .conda? (y/n): y Backup directory: /root/.miniconda_backup/2025-10-16T170117
Next, you will also need to remove the Miniconda directory from the Home directory:
rm -rf ~/miniconda3
Conclusion
In this guide, we explained how to install Miniconda on Rocky Linux 10. We also explained how to update and uninstall Miniconda using the command line. Try it on VPS hosting from Atlantic.Net!