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Philippe Bordron

Troubleshootings with conda

Activation fails

CondaError: Run 'conda init' before 'conda activate'

If you get the conda error: CondaError: Run 'conda init' before 'conda activate', please use source activate <my-env> instead of conda activate <my-env> command.

activate: No such file or directory

If you get the bash error: activate: No such file or directory, please load the conda module:

module load devel/Miniforge/Miniforge3

The base environment is always active

If you installed your own copy of conda, you may have this issue. When opening a terminal, conda loads by default an environment named base. As it can interfere with other software, we recommend disabling its automatic activation:

# We load the miniconda modulemodule load devel/Miniforge/Miniforge3# We deactive the `base` environment auto activationconda config --set auto_activate_base false# We unload current `base` environmentconda deactivate# (base) prefix in prompt must have disappeared

How to display the effective conda configuration?

For diagnostic purpose, the following command displays the full conda configuration.

conda config --show...