Can't run anaconda-navigator on Linux

[akontsevich]

Installed latest anacaonda 4.3.1 x64 on Linux Mint 18.1 (Ubuntu 16.04) and tried to launch anaconda-navigator - no luck: does not show any GUI. Also Anaconda programs was not added to operating system’s main menu as mentioned here: https://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/navigator

Spyder was not working also, however works now after anaconda reinstall.

Any solution to solve this?

Console output attached: anaconda-navigator.out.txt

[mingwandroid]

The page toy linked to says:

Different Linux distributions such as CentOS or Ubuntu have many different systems for adding shortcuts to menus and to the desktop, so Anaconda does not add these shortcuts automatically. Instead, you can use your operating system to create shortcuts that run the command anaconda-navigator on the desktop or on the operating system’s main menu or both.

So you should not expect to see any shortcuts. I'll look into your problem as soon as I have time.

[akontsevich]

PyCharm or NetBeans create menu shortcut without a problem on any Linux. There are common techniques for this, for example just create ~/.local/share/applications/anaconda-navigator.desktop file like this: netbeans-8.1.desktop.txt

[mingwandroid]

I am not trying to suggest that this is not possible, clearly it is. I was merely pointing out that the URL you linked to does not claim that Anaconda will create shortcuts on Linux.

This is something we are hoping to add though.

[akontsevich]

I was merely pointing out that the URL you linked to does not claim that Anaconda will create shortcuts on Linux. This is something we are hoping to add though

Yeah, thanks, I missed this phrase under the link.

[ccordoba12]

Closing because this is a known problem but we don't have plans to solve it in the near future.

Thanks for reporting though.

[akontsevich]

What is the problem about? Any way to solve?

[ccordoba12]

There's no problem, we just don't have time for this right now, sorry.

[darlanpj]

source ~/anaconda3/bin/activate root
anaconda-navigator

[akontsevich]

source ~/anaconda3/bin/activate root
anaconda-navigator

Cool, was able to run it in this way! Thanks!

P.S. Now was able to run even without first line - just anaconda-navigator.

[ferti1969]

Thank you!

[danoff]

Thank you @darlanpj I was having the same issue and that worked for me too!!

[ChamanAgrawal]

@darlanpj I have to activate root every time I close the terminal, any help?
P.S : I got my problem, I am using zsh and the commands were added to .bashrc ,so I just needed to add it to .zshrc

[soscler]

source ~/anaconda3/bin/activate root
anaconda-navigator

1-) Add the path to anaconda in your system path

export $PATH = //bin/:$PATH
2-) update the .bashrc file
source ~/.bashrc

[inceptor0]

Thanks @darlanpj, I too was facing same problem and that worked for me too!

[judiprodige]

Hi
Please, help me.
I open the jupyter notebook, kernel error appears.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\ossej\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tornado\web.py", line 1699, in _execute
result = await result
File "C:\Users\ossej\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tornado\gen.py", line 742, in run
yielded = self.gen.throw(*exc_info) # type: ignore
File "C:\Users\ossej\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\notebook\services\sessions\handlers.py", line 72, in post
type=mtype))
File "C:\Users\ossej\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tornado\gen.py", line 735, in run
value = future.result()
File "C:\Users\ossej\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tornado\gen.py", line 742, in run
yielded = self.gen.throw(*exc_info) # type: ignore
File "C:\Users\ossej\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\notebook\services\sessions\sessionmanager.py", line 88, in create_session
kernel_id = yield self.start_kernel_for_session(session_id, path, name, type, kernel_name)
File "C:\Users\ossej\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tornado\gen.py", line 735, in run
value = future.result()
File "C:\Users\ossej\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tornado\gen.py", line 742, in run
yielded = self.gen.throw(*exc_info) # type: ignore
File "C:\Users\ossej\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\notebook\services\sessions\sessionmanager.py", line 101, in start_kernel_for_session
self.kernel_manager.start_kernel(path=kernel_path, kernel_name=kernel_name)
File "C:\Users\ossej\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tornado\gen.py", line 735, in run
value = future.result()
File "C:\Users\ossej\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tornado\gen.py", line 209, in wrapper
yielded = next(result)
File "C:\Users\ossej\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\notebook\services\kernels\kernelmanager.py", line 168, in start_kernel
super(MappingKernelManager, self).start_kernel(**kwargs)
File "C:\Users\ossej\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\jupyter_client\multikernelmanager.py", line 110, in start_kernel
km.start_kernel(**kwargs)
File "C:\Users\ossej\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\jupyter_client\manager.py", line 240, in start_kernel
self.write_connection_file()
File "C:\Users\ossej\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\jupyter_client\connect.py", line 547, in write_connection_file
kernel_name=self.kernel_name
File "C:\Users\ossej\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\jupyter_client\connect.py", line 212, in write_connection_file
with secure_write(fname) as f:
File "C:\Users\ossej\Anaconda3\lib\contextlib.py", line 112, in enter
return next(self.gen)
File "C:\Users\ossej\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\jupyter_client\connect.py", line 100, in secure_write
win32_restrict_file_to_user(fname)
File "C:\Users\ossej\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\jupyter_client\connect.py", line 53, in win32_restrict_file_to_user
import win32api
ImportError: DLL load failed: La procédure spécifiée est introuvable.

[gurv23]

source ~/anaconda3/bin/activate root
anaconda-navigator

everytime when we have to start conda run these command