Command 'python' not found after creating conda environment

plumb_pete

I am running Ubuntu 19.10 on my laptop, I recently installed miniconda3. No problems this far, but after creating an environment with python 2.7 I get the following message everytime I open a terminal: Command 'python' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install python3 # version 3.7.5-1, or sudo apt install python # version 2.7.17-1 sudo apt install python-minimal # version 2.7.17-1 So I followed the advise and installed python, then...

Originally asked by rustax on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Sorry for all the fuss but I have solved the problem. Since Ubuntu 19.10 doesn't come with python2 pre-installed what I did to get rid of the problem was to first remove python (since I installed it after installing conda, note that this is python and not python3 since python3 comes pre-installed) and conda completely with the following lines. sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove python rm -rf ~/miniconda3 rm -rf ~/.condarc ~/.conda ~/.continuum After this I installed python sudo apt install python And after installing python I installed conda the normal way and now I don't get any of the error messages posted when I open up a terminal. I guess order of PATH variables matters. Since when I had...

Full answer by rustax: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/1196616 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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