conda how do I activate environments

Question

I am struggling to activate conda environments I have created on mac os x. Here are the environment that I have created.

$: conda env list
# conda environments:         


        

Answer 1

Your path seems to be missing the root anaconda directory. when i echo $Path (where username is replacing my actual username) i have the following:

/Users/username/anaconda/bin:/Users/username/anaconda/bin:/Users/username/anaconda/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

in my bash_profile (or zshrc file etc...) I added:

export PATH="/Users/username/anaconda/bin:$PATH"

I use iterm2 with zsh, although this probably applies to more general cases.

On OSX Sierra with Anaconda3 4.4.0 the path is now:

export PATH="/anaconda/bin:$PATH"

Answer 2

use the following

conda create -n your_Env_Name

Then activate it with:

conda activate your_Env_Name

Answer 3

I use miniconda2, so not sure if this will work but: open terminal & navigate to wherever you have conda installed. for me its /Users/username/miniconda 2

and then do source activate env_name

and then you can navigate back to your development directory