Anaconda interferes with `clear` command in Terminal #331

blink1073 · 2015-05-09T12:27:08Z

When I add the anaconda/bin folder to my path:

silvester: ~
$ clear
'xterm-256color': unknown terminal type.
silvester: ~
$ infocmp
infocmp: couldn't open terminfo file /Users/aaronmeurer/anaconda/envs/_build_placehold_placehold_placehold_placehold_/share/terminfo/78/xterm-256color.

Otherwise the clear command works just fine.

cc @asmeurer, since your name is in the path. 😄

$ conda info
Current conda install:

             platform : osx-64
        conda version : 3.12.0
  conda-build version : 1.8.2
       python version : 3.4.3.final.0
     requests version : 2.7.0
     root environment : /Users/silvester/anaconda  (writable)
  default environment : /Users/silvester/anaconda
     envs directories : /Users/silvester/anaconda/envs
        package cache : /Users/silvester/anaconda/pkgs
         channel URLs : https://conda.binstar.org/asmeurer/osx-64/
                        https://conda.binstar.org/asmeurer/noarch/
                        https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/osx-64/
                        https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/noarch/
                        https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/osx-64/
                        https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/noarch/
          config file : /Users/silvester/.condarc
    is foreign system : False

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blink1073 · 2015-05-09T12:29:32Z

Note @asmeurer, I added your binstar channel to install PyQt5.

blink1073 · 2015-05-09T12:32:17Z

That actually may be the problem, because if I activate another conda environment, the problem goes away.

blink1073 · 2015-05-09T12:33:51Z

Actually, there is an infocmp in the main bin, but not in the environment bin directory.

blink1073 · 2015-05-09T12:35:51Z

If I just remove that one file, I get a garbage printout from infocmp, so there is at least one other file in there interfering.

gawbul · 2016-12-08T14:09:07Z

I'm getting the same issue, @blink1073 - if append to path (as opposed to prepend) it works fine, but that gives system python etc. higher precedence. Any further with this at all?

NiziL · 2017-10-31T09:50:17Z

Got the same issue with termite and unicode-rxvt on Archlinux and found a simple (but ugly) workaround: ln -s /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-termite path_to_conda_env/env/share/terminfo/x/.

Unfortunately, this should be done for each env (including root env).
At least I can clear my console again ^^

dantp-ai · 2018-06-13T02:43:27Z

You might have moved the anaconda directory after installation and some bash script links are still pointing to the previous location. Simplest solution is to delete your current anaconda installation directory, remove any paths in .bashrc pointing to it and reinstall it in the desired location.

alexacallmebaka · 2020-10-31T01:25:50Z

The "clear" command only works when I am outside of a conda environment or if I am root. @plopd fix did not work.

1971hemicuda · 2021-03-10T20:01:23Z

I found that renaming the $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear has resolved the issue

BUCKFAE · 2021-03-17T15:29:58Z

I found that renaming the $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear has resolved the issue

sudo mv $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear_old

Did the trick for me! (Manjaro)

pocco81 · 2021-03-28T00:47:27Z

I found that renaming the $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear has resolved the issue
sudo mv $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear_old
Did the trick for me! (Manjaro)

Did the trick for as well on both Ubuntu and Debian! btw, I think this should obviously work on any Linux distro, because they all have the same file system, at least that's what I know.

aimuhire · 2021-04-13T18:15:22Z

I found that renaming the $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear has resolved the issue
sudo mv $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear_old
Did the trick for me! (Manjaro)

For me on Macbook, It worked.

Maxsash · 2021-05-12T19:09:11Z

I found that renaming the $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear has resolved the issue
sudo mv $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear_old
Did the trick for me! (Manjaro)

Workes on Garuda Linux (Arch based).

sagard21 · 2021-06-29T05:56:08Z

sudo mv $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear_old
Worked for me too. Thanks

Alex-Kopylov · 2021-07-08T17:28:59Z

I found that renaming the $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear has resolved the issue
sudo mv $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear_old
Did the trick for me! (Manjaro)

THX! After restarting terminal it works as intended.

manojuppala · 2021-07-16T09:09:26Z

sudo mv $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear_old
This worked absolutely fine for me (on linux mint). but may i know what this means?

Hemant-ML · 2021-07-27T09:41:30Z

sudo mv $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear_old

also works for my ubuntu 20.04.

Yaser-wyx · 2021-08-22T01:44:56Z

sudo mv $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear_old
it works for me too!
if it does not work for you, maybe can restart your terminal.

ariveron · 2021-08-24T00:42:31Z

sudo mv $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/clear_old
This worked absolutely fine for me (on linux mint). but may i know what this means?

This is renaming the anaconda "clear" binary to "clear_old" so that it doesn't interfere with the default "clear" program. This is probably needed because the anaconda binaries folder path is being prepended to PATH, instead of appending.

Instead of renaming the anaconda "clear" binary, I changed this line in my ~/.bashrc file from:

export /opt/anaconda/bin:PATH=$PATH

to this

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/anaconda/bin

Mohamed-Aziz-Ben-Nessir · 2021-08-26T23:04:50Z

manually changed it , works on artix

brainwave · 2021-12-15T18:37:37Z

I use kitty and the miniconda clear program refused to clear my terminal's output. Probably because miniconda clear only worked with xterm compliant shells, while Kitty is not? The problem also occurs because miniconda prepends path of newly created environments to the shell PATH, instead of appending to it. So in order of precedence, miniconda clear triggers instead of system clear binary. To solve this, I copied my system clear from /usr/bin/clear to the miniconda3/bin folder and the problem is resolved for now. need to see if the hack sustains through various conda upgrades.

zhyiyu · 2022-02-04T12:08:20Z

Wondering if this obvious will be resolved anytime soon...

iteemhe · 2022-04-28T05:39:06Z

This issue is likely caused by the lack of TERMINFO environment variable. The path to TERMINFO in most Linux system is /usr/share/terminfo. But you need to manually check if the path exists, or it is under another path.

Then, in your .zshrc or .bashrc, include this line.

export TERMINFO="/usr/share/terminfo"

Now, restart your terminal emulator.

This issue is still due to a bug in the build of anaconda/miniconda. The TERMINFO variable is hardcoded in clear binary. By moving the clear to clear_old can help solve this problem, but some applications(e.g bpython) installed by conda still cannot run due to the fact that TERMINFO is a hardcoded and incorrect path.

brainwave · 2022-05-11T04:33:57Z

Nice @iteemhe . How did you find this, if I may ask?

LeileiChui · 2022-07-11T05:38:44Z

This issue is likely caused by the lack of TERMINFO environment variable. The path to TERMINFO in most Linux system is /usr/share/terminfo. But you need to manually check if the path exists, or it is under another path.

Then, in your .zshrc or .bashrc, include this line.
export TERMINFO="/usr/share/terminfo"
Now, restart your terminal emulator.

This issue is still due to a bug in the build of anaconda/miniconda. The TERMINFO variable is hardcoded in clear binary. By moving the clear to clear_old can help solve this problem, but some applications(e.g bpython) installed by conda still cannot run due to the fact that TERMINFO is a hardcoded and incorrect path.

Worked for me, thanks

…t-904231366

When loading anaconda3 module hit an issue with the terminfo/termcap files. [This issue](ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues#331) summarizes it nicely and the fix is to set TERMINFO env var. This commit adds a hook to set TERMINFO in the anaconda module file.

Forence1999 · 2023-02-28T05:57:35Z

conda install ncurses=6.3

solved my problem, which might be caused by the bug of ncurses=6.4

gawbul mentioned this issue Dec 8, 2016

clear command doesn't work with OS X 10.10.3: "unknown terminal type" conda/conda#1368

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No such command in 3.6.4 of python on "clear" command. asdf-community/asdf-python#31

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Conda bash setup conflicts with 256-color conda/conda#9172

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Clear command not working. Terminals database is inaccessible. fish-shell/fish-shell#9023

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Add hook for anaconda3 to fix terminfo. ubccr/software-layer#21

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