Where does Anaconda Python install on Windows?
Open the Anaconda Prompt and type:
> where python
To find where Anaconda was installed I used the "where" command on the command line in Windows.
C:\>where anaconda
which for me returned:
C:\Users\User-Name\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda2\Scripts\anaconda.exe
Which allowed me to find the Anaconda Python interpreter at
C:\Users\User-Name\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda2\python.exe
to update PyDev
conda info
will display information about the current install, including the active env location which is what you want.
Here's my output:
(base) C:\Users\USERNAME>conda info
active environment : base
active env location : C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3
shell level : 1
user config file : C:\Users\USERNAME\.condarc
populated config files :
conda version : 4.8.2
conda-build version : not installed
python version : 3.7.6.final.0
virtual packages : __cuda=10.2
base environment : C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3 (read only)
channel URLs : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/win-64
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/win-64
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/win-64
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/noarch
package cache : C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\pkgs
C:\Users\USERNAME\.conda\pkgs
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
envs directories : C:\Users\USERNAME\.conda\envs
C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\envs
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
platform : win-64
user-agent : conda/4.8.2 requests/2.22.0 CPython/3.7.6 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.18362
administrator : False
netrc file : None
offline mode : False
If your shell/prompt complains that it cannot find the command, it likely means that you installed Anaconda without adding it to the PATH environment variable.
If that's the case find and open the Anaconda Prompt and do it from there (the Anaconda Prompt should be available in your Start Menu (Win) or Applications Menu (macos))
Alternatively reinstall Anaconda choosing to add it to the PATH or add the variable manually.
You can search for "Anaconda prompt" in installed programs and run it.
When it opens, it shows the directory anaconda is working from.
As you can see c:\programdata\anaconda2 is my installed directory.
*side note: programdata folder is hidden in windows so you'll have to enter its path in the folder explorer to access it.