Anaconda is not creating full environment

Question

I'm trying to create a conda environment using git-bash and win10. I ran:

$ conda create --name my_env

The result looks like the screenshot above.

Looking at other environments , I can see they normally look like:

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

To create the environment with the Python executable, use one of:

conda create --name my_env python  # latest available python version
conda create --name my_env python=3.7  # specific python version

Without specifying packages, i.e. python as above, conda just doesn't install anything at all in my_env environment.

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You can alternatively install the Python interpreter after environment creation. For a list of installable Python versions, run conda search "^python$".

conda install python  # latest available python version
conda install python=3.7  # specific python version

Answer 2

You have to use this to get all of the Anaconda default packages:

conda create --name my_env anaconda

Otherwise, it doesn't install everything.