Anaconda: cannot find packages when calling Python interpreter from outside the shell

Question

I have two Anaconda environments:

• The base environment
• An R environment (containing R only)

The base environment is the default environme

Answer 1

Have you tired activating the environments with a stack config? This allows my applications to use two different environments at the same time with different Python versions on each.

conda activate base && conda activate --stack myEnv

Answer 2

I had the same issue as yours, so I used the following command under "Run as Administrator" in my command prompt, and everything works fine thereafter

set CONDA_DLL_SEARCH_MODIFICATION_ENABLE=1

Answer 3

You can conda activate myEnvName. Then, calling python on shell will bring you the desired python. When installing packages, always select in which environment you wish it to be installed. The default environment is base