9/2017

The current-anaconda[2,3].tgz  should be install
into  /usr/local.  So for example,

  tar xzf current-el-capitan-3.tgz -C /usr/local

will install  /usr/loca/anaconda3.

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9/2016

The anaconda2.tgz  should be installed into
/usr/local.   This is from Anaconda2 4.1.1.

  tar xvzf anaconda2.tgz -C /usr/local

This is for  10.7 or above.

Note that Anaconda distros have now started 
to bifurcate into  anaconda2  and  anaconda3.
You could install both versions.

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5/2016

The anaconda.tgz  should be installed into
/usr/local.   This is from the Anaconda distro
version 4.0.0.

  tar xvzf anaconda.tgz -C /usr/local

This is for  10.7 or above.

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1/10/2016

The anaconda.tgz  should be installed into
/usr/local.   This is from the Anaconda distro
version 2.4.1.

This is for  10.7 or above.

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9/4/2015 - P Fan

This is an install into  /usr/local/anaconda
from  Anaconda 2.3.0.

To install, be an admin user, and do

> tar xvzf anaconda.tgz -C /usr/local

To set your "anaconda" paths, do

> mkdir ~/.cshrc.special
> touch ~/.cshrc.special/anaconda.local
> source .cshrc