Windows Subsystem for Linux – conda: command not found
Question:
I’m using Windows 10 and recently installed Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Anaconda was already installed on my PC at that point.
When I try to run conda commands on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows I get the following error:
$ conda conda: command not found
Other related answers, such as this or this suggest adding
C:Users«user»Anaconda3Scripts
C:Users«user»Anaconda3
to $PATH. But as you can see below, both are already included (I didn’t add them manually):
$ echo $PATH | tr ':' 'n'
...
/mnt/c/Users/«user»/Anaconda3
/mnt/c/Users/«user»/Anaconda3/Scripts
/mnt/c/Users/«user»/Anaconda3/Library/bin
...
The following conda files are available in Anaconda3/Scripts:
conda.exe
conda-env.exe
conda-env-script.py
conda-script.py
conda-server.exe
conda-server-script.py
The commands work just fine in both PowerShell and cmd.
What am I missing?
[EDIT]: Corrected second URL and changed user to < user > in Anaconda3 paths above.
Answers:
Try to run conda.exe instead of conda.
Windows assume .exe marks a file as executable, and ignores that extension when looking for the binary. Linux uses a flag, so any file can be an executable, and you need to provide the full name because there is no assumption on the extension.
Run conda init
.anaconda3/bin/conda init
.miniconda/bin/conda init
To add conda to Windows Subsystem Linux, this is the correct way:
curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -o Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
export PATH=$PATH:/miniconda3/bin
You will need to restart WSL for the env path to work.
I’m using Windows 10 and recently installed Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Anaconda was already installed on my PC at that point.
When I try to run conda commands on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows I get the following error:
$ conda conda: command not found
Other related answers, such as this or this suggest adding
C:Users«user»Anaconda3Scripts
C:Users«user»Anaconda3
to $PATH. But as you can see below, both are already included (I didn’t add them manually):
$ echo $PATH | tr ':' 'n'
...
/mnt/c/Users/«user»/Anaconda3
/mnt/c/Users/«user»/Anaconda3/Scripts
/mnt/c/Users/«user»/Anaconda3/Library/bin
...
The following conda files are available in Anaconda3/Scripts:
conda.exe
conda-env.exe
conda-env-script.py
conda-script.py
conda-server.exe
conda-server-script.py
The commands work just fine in both PowerShell and cmd.
What am I missing?
[EDIT]: Corrected second URL and changed user to < user > in Anaconda3 paths above.
Try to run conda.exe instead of conda.
Windows assume .exe marks a file as executable, and ignores that extension when looking for the binary. Linux uses a flag, so any file can be an executable, and you need to provide the full name because there is no assumption on the extension.
Run conda init
.anaconda3/bin/conda init
.miniconda/bin/conda init
To add conda to Windows Subsystem Linux, this is the correct way:
curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -o Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
export PATH=$PATH:/miniconda3/bin
You will need to restart WSL for the env path to work.