Cloning root environment with Anaconda

Question

Going through one of (very few available) tutorials on Anaconda, I tried:

$ conda create -n rootclone --clone root

This failed:

Answer 1

Use following command to clone default root environment of Anaconda, the root environment is named as base. This worked for me with Anaconda3-5.0.1

conda create --name <env_name> --clone base

Answer 2

The MemoryError indicates that the conda process ran out of memory. Perhaps you need to allocate more swap memory.