Anaconda -- conda create results in "Failed to create process"

Question

I recently installed Anaconda onto my laptop and I am trying to install a conda environment called pydecal that uses python 3.5. I have tried this in CMD as well as in Anaconda Prompt. I did not enter Python when Below is my code:

conda create --name pydecal python=3.5

I am getting a "Failed to create process." message every time I try to run the command. Anaconda installed fine in 64-bit. I am on a clean install of Windows 10. I have no other instances of Python on my computer whatsoever. I have tried running CMD and Anaconda Prompt as an administrator. I have restarted my laptop several times. Regardless, I run into the same problem. Any ideas on what is going wrong?

Answer 1

Did you install it on the primary drive (C:)?

My conda did not work either. I have just uninstalled Anaconda3 which was formerly installed in a secondary drive (E: rather than C:).

After installing Anaconda3 on the primary drive (C:), conda seems to work fine.

Answer 2

I solved it by making this way:

1: Install Anaconda in a directory structure not containing spaces. 2: Modify system environments to not include %PATH% in the user section. I found that 'echo %PATH%' in a prompt resulted in the system defined paths, were shown twice. 3: Moved all paths containing %SYSTEMROOT% to the top search order. This was to assure the need to search obscure named paths was not searched by the 'activate' command.

Let me know if this solves your problem.

Br Michael

Answer 3

I solved it this way:

Opening the "Anaconda Prompt" Console Link that Anaconda creates in the start menu. As conda appeared to work fine there I copied the predefined envinronment variables for that prompt :

If you check the link, it executes this:

%windir%\System32\cmd.exe "/K" C:\tools\Anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat C:\tools\Anaconda3

and that file refers to C:\tools\Anaconda3\condabin\conda.bat

So finally the path is specified there as :

C:\tools\Anaconda3;C:\tools\Anaconda3\Library\mingw-w64\bin;C:\tools\Anaconda3\Library\usr\bin;C:\tools\Anaconda3\Library\bin;C:\tools\Anaconda3\Scripts;C:\tools\Anaconda3\bin;C:\tools\Anaconda3\condabin;

I added that to the Windows System Environment variables and it now works properly on git bash, and other shells.