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Anaconda Prompt launches wrong conda installation

I have two conda installations that I need for different projects :

  1. Anaconda installation located at : C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\anaconda3
  2. ArcGIS Pro located at : C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python

However, when I use the Anaconda Prompt icon (from Anaconda installation), I keep getting the envs from the ArcGIS Pro installation. The Anaconda Prompt icon use the following command : %windir%\System32\cmd.exe "/K" C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\anaconda3.
But if I display the available environments with conda env list, I get :

# conda environments:
#
base                     C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python
arcgispro-py3            C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3
                      *  C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\anaconda3

And if I create a new env (here named test), it is created in the ArcGIS folder (ESRI is the name of the company owning ArcGIS):

test                     C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\ESRI\conda\envs\test

Uninstalling ArcGIS Pro corrects the problem :

# conda environments:
#
base                  *  C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\anaconda3
test                     C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\test

However, after reinstalling it, the problem reappeared.

Anyone knows which files need to be modified to keep the ArcGIS Pro conda installation apart from the Anaconda one ?

Solution

  • Not sure where the problem came from, but I managed to overwrite the conda root_prefix parameter. So now, the ArcGIS Pro envs do not appear.

    In the Anaconda Prompt : conda config --set root_prefix C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\anaconda3

    Verification : conda env list gives :

    # conda environments:
#
base                  *  C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\anaconda3
test                     C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\anaconda3\envs\test