conda command will prompt error: "Bad Interpreter: No such file or directory"

I encountered the same error while trying

conda

The error you should interpret as follows:

bash: "path_to_file_with_error": "path_to_file_it_points_to": 
bad interpreter: No such file or directory

How to fix Type in terminal

nano "path_to_file_with_error"

Change first line of the file to correct path of the python (in my case it was in miniconda/bin)

As the response above, this issue can be solved by changing the

#!/opt/anaconda1anaconda2anaconda3/bin/python

to

#!/opt/anaconda3/bin/python

However, as soon as you do the next installation, e.g. "conda install [...]" this will be changed again to anaconda1anaconda2anaconda3, for whatever reasons.

You might also realize some installation warnings and errors which are very likely to be related to this problem. If you want to get rid of this problem, you have to solve this warnings and errors. My strongest assumption is that there are missing administrator rights causing this problem, when you attempt to installs some conda packages the first time.

Something must have gone wrong during the installation, I suppose. The bad interpreter means that a script is looking for an interpreter that doesn't exist - as you rightfully pointed out.

The problem is likely to be in the shebang #! statement of your conda script.

From Wikipedia: Under Unix-like operating systems, when a script with a shebang is run as a program, the program loader parses the rest of the script's initial line as an interpreter directive; the specified interpreter program is run instead, passing to it as an argument the path that was initially used when attempting to run the script.

If you run

cat ~/anaconda3/bin/conda

You will probably get the following:

#!/opt/anaconda1anaconda2anaconda3/bin/python
if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    import conda.cli

    sys.exit(conda.cli.main())

Changing the first line to point a correct interpreter, i.e., changing it to:

#!/home/lukasz/anaconda3/bin/python

Should make the conda command work.

If you are sure that you installed everything properly, then I'd suggest maybe reaching out for support from the anaconda community.