Activate conda env

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Dear community

I would like to active the conda env where I installed a python package natcap.invest.

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I got the following argument error

(base) C:\Users\Sibylle Stöckli>conda activate – C:\Users\Sibylle Stöckli.conda\envs\env-invest

ArgumentError: activate does not accept more than one argument:
[‘–’, ‘C:\Users\Sibylle’, ‘Stöckli\.conda\envs\env-invest’]

(base) C:\Users\Sibylle Stöckli>conda info --envs

conda environments:

base * C:\ProgramData\miniconda3
env-invest C:\Users\Sibylle Stöckli.conda\envs\env-invest

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Hey @sibylles :slight_smile:

The conda activate command expects a single argument, but there are extra characters in the command you shared:

  • A - after conda activate
  • A space in \Sibylle Stöckli.conda\

These cause the conda activate command to treat it as three arguments instead of one. If you remove the - and the space, it should work fine. Here is how you would run the command:

conda activate C:\Users\SibylleStöckli.conda\envs\env-invest

You might need to rename Sibylle Stöckli.conda to remove the space in the name.

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Many thanks dasha
Is my name a problem with “ö”?

still an error

(base) C:\Users\Sibylle Stöckli>conda activate C:\Users\SibylleStöckli.conda\envs\env-invest

EnvironmentLocationNotFound: Not a conda environment: C:\Users\SibylleStöckli.conda\envs\env-invest

(base) C:\Users\Sibylle Stöckli>

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It is a fixed user name account. So I need to set up my computer totally new.

Is there another solution, e.g. install conda on another folder?

5

Normally you would just use the name of the environment, not the full path. So like conda activate env-invest. Does that work?

6

Thank you Brendan

I suppose that I need to first set up the path. Using your code, I got the message, that the system cannot find the path.

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Kind regards
Sibylle

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Although there is an error, your screenshot seems to show that the environment was activated, since (env-invest) appeared in the prompt. But it’s possible the error indicates something went wrong during activation. If you do conda activate env-invest and then do conda info, what output do you get?

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Things to try:

  • Quoting the full path:
conda activate "C:\Users\Sibylle Stöckli\.conda\envs\env-invest"
  • Navigating to the path and using relative path:
cd "C:\Users\Sibylle Stöckli\.conda\envs"
conda activate .\env-invest

If those don’t work, can you paste the output of:

  • conda info --envs
  • dir "C:\Users\Sibylle Stöckli\.conda\envs\env-invest"