pip is not recognized in Anaconda Prompt

Question

I\'m using Anaconda on Windows x64. I\'m trying to install some library using pip. However, the the command line isn\'t recognizing pip or any other scripts. The folder that

Answer 1

When creating your environment, you need to specify pip as a dependency:

conda create --name my-env pip
activate my-env
pip install ...

Installing a new environment with all default anaconda packages:

conda create --name my-env anaconda

Answer 2

Try typing

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

in CMD

It worked for me.

Answer 3

Add script folder location to path, for individual user installation it will be "C:\Users\<user>\Anaconda3\Scripts" and for everyone installation it can be found in Program Files "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\Scripts"

Answer 4

Do this worked for me:

conda install pip

and try:

pip install package_name

Answer 5

Make sure you have the following dir added to PATH:

C:\Python27\Scripts

Answer 6

I had it myself because of my username which uses this character "ï" which causes an encoding problem in the PATH variable. Therefore, scripts cannot be found by anaconda. I had to install Anaconda For everyone and not just the current user to solve this problem.