Conda command is not recognized on Windows 10

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I installed Anaconda 4 4 0  Python 3 6 version  on Windows 10 by following the instructions here  https   www continuum io downloads  However  when I open the Command prompt window and try to write   conda list   I get the       conda  command is not recognized      error    I tried to run  set PATH  PATH  C  Users Alex Anaconda3   but it didn t help  I also read that I might need to edit my  bashrc file  but I don t know how to access this file  and how I should edit it

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Things have been changed after conda 4 6   Programs  Anaconda Prompt  and  Anaconda Powershell  expose the command conda for you automatically  Find them in your startup menu   If you don t wanna use the prompts above and try to make conda available in a normal cmd exe and a Powershell  Read the following content     Expose conda in Every Shell  The purpose of the following content is to make command conda available both in cmd exe and Powershell on Windows   If you have already checked  Add Anaconda to my PATH environment variable  during Anaconda installation  skip step 1      If Anaconda is installed for the current use only  add  USERPROFILE  Anaconda3 condabin  I mean condabin  not Scripts  into the environment variable PATH  the user one   If Anaconda is installed for all users on your machine  add C  ProgramData Anaconda3 condabin into PATH   How do I set system environment variables on Windows  Open a new Powershell  run the following command once to initialize conda   conda init    These steps make sure the conda command is exposed into your cmd exe and Powershell     Extended Reading  conda init from Conda 4 6  Caveat  Add the new  path to anaconda3 condabin but not  path to anaconda3 Scripts into your PATH  This is a big change introduced in conda 4 6   Activation script initialization fron conda 4 6 release log     Conda 4 6 adds extensive initialization support so that more shells than ever before can use the new conda activate command  For more information  read the output from conda init    help We   re especially excited about this new way of working  because removing the need to modify PATH makes Conda much less disruptive to other software on your system    In the old days   path to anaconda3 Scripts is the one to be put into your PATH  It exposes command conda and the default Python from  base  environment at the same time   After conda 4 6  conda related commands are separated into condabin  This makes it possible to expose ONLY command conda without activating the Python from  base  environment   References   Conda 4 6 Release How do I prevent Conda from activating the base environment

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If you want to use Anaconda in regular cmd on windows you need to add several paths to your Path env variable   Those paths are  instead of Anaconda3 the folder may be Anaconda2 depending on the Anaconda version on your PC     Users YOUR USER Anaconda3  Users YOUR USER Anaconda3 Library mingw-w64 bin  Users YOUR USER Anaconda3 Library usr bin  Users YOUR USER Anaconda3 Library bin  Users YOUR USER Anaconda3 Scripts  Users YOUR USER Anaconda3 bin

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case  1 You should set 3 path    ANACONDAPATH    ANACONDAPATH  Scripts   ANACONDAPATH  Library bin    It will solve problem   C  WINDOWS system32 gt conda update conda Solving environment  failed  CondaHTTPError  HTTP 000 CONNECTION FAILED for url  lt https   repo anaconda com pkgs msys2 noarch repodata json bz2 gt  Elapsed  -       case  2 Also you can use Anaconda Promd  for Win10  instead CLI  cmd exe

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If you have installed Visual studio 2017  profressional   The install location   C  ProgramData Anaconda3 Scripts   If you do not want the hassle of putting this in your path environment variable on windows and restarting you can run it by simply   C   gt  C  ProgramData Anaconda3 Scripts conda exe  update qt pyqt

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The newest version of the Anaconda installer for Windows will also install a windows launcher for  Anaconda Prompt  and  Anaconda Powershell Prompt   If you use one of those instead of the regular windows cmd shell  the conda command  python etc  should be available by default in this shell

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You need to add the python exe in C       Anaconda3 installation file as well as C       Anaconda3 Scripts to PATH    First go to your installation directory  in my case it is installed in C   Users user Anaconda3 and shift right click and press  Open command window here  or it might be  Open powershell here   if it is powershell  just write cmd and hit enter to run command window  Then run the following command setx PATH  cd    Then go to C   Users user Anaconda3 Scripts and open the command window there as above  then run the same command  setx PATH  cd

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Even I got the same problem when I ve first installed Anaconda  It said  conda  command not found   So I ve just setup two values added two new paths of Anaconda  system environment variables in the PATH variable which are                     C  Users mshas Anaconda2      amp                    C  Users mshas Anaconda2 Scripts  Lot of people forgot to add the second variable which is  Scripts  just add that then  conda  command works

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To prevent having further issues with SSL you should add all those to Path      SETX PATH   PATH  C   lt path gt  Anaconda3 C   lt path gt  Anaconda3 Scripts C   lt path gt  Anaconda3 Library bin    Requests  Caused by SSLError  quot Can  39 t connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available  quot   Error in PyCharm requesting website

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When you install anaconda on windows now  it doesn t automatically add Python or Conda    If you don   t know where your conda and or python is  you type the following commands into your anaconda prompt    Next  you can add Python and Conda to your path by using the setx command in your command prompt    Next close that command prompt and open a new one  Congrats you can now use conda and python   Source  https   medium com  GalarnykMichael install-python-on-windows-anaconda-c63c7c3d1444

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In Windows  you will have to set the path to the location where you installed Anaconda3 to   For me  I installed anaconda3 into C  Anaconda3  Therefore you need to add C  Anaconda3 as well as C  Anaconda3 Scripts  to your path variable  e g  set PATH  PATH  C  Anaconda3 C  Anaconda3 Scripts    You can do this via powershell  see above  https   msdn microsoft com en-us library windows desktop bb776899 v vs 85  aspx    or hit the windows key   enter environment   choose from settings   edit environment variables for your account   select Path variable   Edit   New   To test it  open a new dos shell  and you should be able to use conda commands now  E g   try conda --version

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I had also faced the same problem just an hour back  I was trying to install QuTip Quantum Toolbox in Python Unfortunately  I didn t stumble onto this page in time  Say you have downloaded Anaconda installer and run it until the end  Naively  I opened the command prompt in windows 10 and proceded to type the following commands as given in the qutip installation docs   conda create -n qutip-env conda config --append channels conda-forge conda install qutip  But as soon as I typed the first line I got the following response  conda is not recognized as an internal or external command  operable program or batch file  error messsage I went ahead and tried some other things as seen in this figures error message Finally after going through a number conda websites  I understood how one fixes this problem  Type Anaconda prompt in the search bar at the bottom like this  same place where you hail Cortana  Anaconda prompt Once you are here all the conda commands will work as usual

[python] Conda command is not recognized on Windows 10

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