I’m having some issues with miniconda. I just finished installing it, but when I type “conda list” in Git Bash, it returns “bash: conda: command not found”. Does anyone know what the issue may be?
By default, miniconda installs conda in either Cmd or Anaconda Prompt on Windows. If you haven’t gone out of your way to set it up for use in Git Bash, you won’t be able to.
When I try to use it it in Command Prompt, I get a similar error message:
‘conda’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
When I try to use it in Anaconda Powershell Prompt, I get:
I’ve had issues before with my username having a space in it. Could that be the issue? If so, do you know how I could fix it?
Do you have Anaconda Prompt installed or not? If you don’t, conda would have been installed in Cmd. If Cmd is telling you that ‘conda’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file then either miniconda is not installed or it installed Anaconda Prompt, which is where it would be set up for default use.
The screenshot you sent is from Powershell, not Anaconda Prompt. Go to the search bar at the bottom of your screen and search Anaconda. It should pop up. If it doesn’t, you may want to try downloading and installing miniconda again. I don’t think your username should pose a problem here.
Thank you for the assistance. I tried using Anaconda Prompt (not Powershell) and it gave me the same response as Cmd. I can see all the files and folders for miniconda3, but the ‘conda’ command doesn’t seem to work. Is there an alternative command to use miniconda? When I setup Python, I couldn’t get it to work until I used ‘py’ instead of ‘python’ - is something similar going on?
Can you post a screenshot of your command and your error in Anaconda Prompt? You should never be getting an error saying that ‘conda is not a command’ with Anaconda Prompt.
That’s very strange.
Try reinstalling miniconda, but this time check YES to the option that asks whether or not to prepend the conda prompt to your path.
Actually, it may have something to do with your username having a space.
I just found this on stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60789886/error-failed-to-create-temp-directory-c-users-user-appdata-local-temp-conda
You can try using the search bar at the bottom and searching for “environment variables” then open “Edit System Environment Variables”. Once you are there, click the Environment Variables button and look at your user variables. Under the TEMP and TMP ones, change the value to have quotes around your username.
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Got it, thank you. I tried adding the quotes, but I still got the same error message. I’ll try uninstalling and reinstalling miniconda and add conda to my path when I reinstall it. I delete miniconda by just deleting the folder correct?
Instructions on uninstalling it here:
https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/install/windows.html#uninstalling-conda
Actually, I think you were right - the space was the issue. I uninstalled and reinstalled (adding conda to my path), but it just threw a process failed error. I ended up changing my username to remove the space and now it works. Thanks for all the help!
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No problem! Glad you got it figured out!
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Hey I was having the same problem and followed all the recommended steps here.
Now when I use Anaconda Powershell Prompt, conda list works and shows a list of packages. However, when I use Anaconda Prompt, it doesn’t work and says:
Failed to create temp directory “C:\Users\MYTUYE~1"C:\conda_tmp”\conda-"
C:\Users\My Tuyen SB2>conda list
‘conda’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\Users\My Tuyen SB2>
Will this be an issue in future? Can i just use anaconda powershell prompt or is there a solution to fix this in anaconda prompt?
I’m not sure of exactly what you did here.
Was your Anaconda Prompt working before? It sounds like it was working and now it doesn’t?
Also, what did you do right before this error message started showing up?
That doesn’t seem to be the same username as the one in the prompt…
If your username has spaces in it, you will see that OP solved the problem by just changing his username to something with no spaces in it.
oh nevermind! it works now in anaconda prompt and anaconda powershell. it does not work in windows command prompt, but i didn’t love their commands anyway so i dont think that will be a problem for me.
May I ask what are the differences and trade offs between using anaconda powershell vs anaconda command prompt vs windows command prompt? I am still very new to coding so was a bit confusing.
Also thanks for your help!