Installing and configuring Qiskit on your local machine
In this section, we will walk you through the installation process of Qiskit. It is important to note that to complete the examples in this book, you will need to install Qiskit on your machine locally, as the IBM Quantum Platform no longer has a lab, nor does it have any simulators to run circuits on the cloud, only the actual quantum systems, which you will have limited access. The installation will include installing Anaconda, which is the tool used by many Qiskit developers to install Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Qiskit, and many other data science packages. It also serves as a simple way to manage packages and how they are installed on your local machine. In our case, it will help by installing the prepackaged dependencies we will need, such as Python, Jupyter Notebooks, pip, and many others.
Once installed, you can create an environment specific to quantum development with all the dependencies and features already installed...
