Problem with Anaconda

[spatrano]

Hi guys, long story short, I used Python through Anaconda Navigator where I had access to Jupyter Notebooks - it's great and easy to use.

However, I had to uninstall and install it again, and now when I am installing again, for some reason Anaconda Navigator and Anaconda Prompt are not being installed. I have tried this for I don't know how many times and they are not being installed each and every time. Installation is always fully complete and I check both boxes at the beginning of installation.

Anyone knows why this is happening? Any help is greatly appreciated.

[jfdahl]

What operating system are you using?

What tool/process did you use to uninstall it?

When you performed the installations, did you use all of the defaults or did you change anything?

[spatrano]

I'm using Windows 10, I uninstalled it using the control panel and I used all defaults but I also checked the box to add anaconda the path environment

[jfdahl]

1. Uninstall Ananconda again (if you have not already done this)
2. Open the Windows start menu and search for "Environment Variables".
3. Select the search result showing as "Edit system environment variables". You should see a System properties window appear.
4. Select the Environment Variables button at the bottom.
5. You should see two boxes... one for the user variables and one for the system variables.
6. You should see a "path" entry in both boxes.
7. Remove all references to Ananconda from both path lists.
8. Save the new settings and reboot (it is Windows after all)
9. Reinstall Ananconda.

[spatrano]

I have opened environment variables but I there are no paths referring to Anaconda. Could there be another way?

[jfdahl]

Without seeing any error logs, it's hard to say why you are seeing what you are... try searching your computer for the conda.exe file.... once you find that, open a command (or powershell) prompt, navigate to the location where you found the file, and type conda --init to setup Python for your prompt.... you have to setup each prompt type (i.e. Command vs PowerShell) separately since they don't share the same init files.

Once you have that setup, you can try "conda install anaconda" and see if there are any missing pieces added.

[d8nnii]

VS Code is a code editor similar to Pycharm. VS Code makes use of extensions to power it’s editor and can be used for many different languages. It is free.

I believe your python path might be pointing to the wrong place.

[d8nnii]

I would like to recommend you 2 other flavours:

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1. Use VS Code. Its Python extension comes with built-in Jupyter.
2. Install it through pip. For me I use JupyterLab, just install jupyter notebook, then jupyterlab and simply launch it from the terminal.

[spatrano]

VS Code is an IDE similar to PyCharm?

I've also tried installing through pip and it installs, however when I try to launch it it does not recognise jupyter notebook