I'm not sure why I can't get Anaconda to launch while I'm inside of one of my Conda environments; I'm using Ubuntu LTS. While I'm in the base environment, I can run the following command in my terminal and Anaconda will start up just fine.

anaconda-navigator

I also set up a Conda environment with specifications for a specific version of python and specific versions of libraries in a .yml file; conda was able to download and install everything successfully. When I run the below command in my terminal, I can see that the environment changes.

conda active {environment name}

My problem is that when I try to start up anaconda while inside of this new environment I get a command not found message.

How do I fix this error?

CodePudding user response：

This is the intended behavior - anaconda-navigator is only meant to be launched from base environment. When base is not active, only the condabin/ directory from the base environment is still retained on $PATH. If you really want to launch Anaconda Navigator from other environments, you could try creating a symlink/softlink pointing at the base bin/anaconda-navigator, e.g.,

conda activate base
cd $CONDA_PREFIX
ln -s bin/anaconda-navigator condabin/anaconda-navigator

However, this is non-standard and may lead to unexpected behavior.

Otherwise, you would need to install anaconda-navigator in each environment, which I don't think is recommended.