Let's just assume you're using an Ubuntu-ish distro of Linux. In some ways that makes
this a little more complicated, but on the other hand, it lets me assume you have experience
with other package managers. So the big thing here is that conda is it's own little scientific
apt-get (python packages, GIS tools, R + R packages, gcc, etc) that goes off and builds sandboxes
contained in individual rooms. Then there's pip. Pip is specifically for python packages only and
in my opinion, should only be used when the conda package isn't available.
Back to conda: conda is a package manager that depends on python, but is not per se an installation of python. So: