Conda activate not working?

Question

 gonzo  ~/a/packages  conda env list
# conda environments:
#
ppo_latest               /nohome/jaan/abhishek/anaconda3/envs/ppo_latest
root                  *  /noh         


        

Answer 1

This solution is for those users who do not want to set PATH.

Sometimes setting PATH may not be desired. In my case, I had Anaconda installed and another software with a Python installation required for accessing the API, and setting PATH was creating conflicts which were difficult to resolve.

Under the Anaconda directory (in this case Anaconda3) there is a subdirectory called envs where all the environments are stored. When using conda activate some-environment replace some-environment with the actual directory location of the environment.

In my case the command is as follows.

conda activate C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\some-environment