Permanently set Python path for Anaconda within Cygwin

Question

I\'m trying to install Anaconda on my Windows 7 machine. I often use cygwin to for my command-line work, and I would like to manage Anaconda from there. I\'ve worked through

Answer 1

There is another problem with conda's interpretation of cygwin. When you source the activation script for an environment, it prepends e.g.

/C/Users/Thomas.Harris/AppData/Local/Continuum/Anaconda3/envs/blah
/C/Users/Thomas.Harris/AppData/Local/Continuum/Anaconda3/envs/blah/Library/mingw-w64/bin /C/Users/Thomas.Harris/AppData/Local/Continuum/Anaconda3/envs/blah/Library/usr/bin
/C/Users/Thomas.Harris/AppData/Local/Continuum/Anaconda3/envs/blah/Library/bin
/C/Users/Thomas.Harris/AppData/Local/Continuum/Anaconda3/envs/blah/Scripts

to your PATH. However, these are not proper directories in cygwin.

I fixed this with

ln -s /cygdrive/c /C

and then if you create conda environments with specific versions of python they should work.